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wgm-beautiful-world · 9 months

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L O N D O N

#big ben #clock #reloj #westminster palace #palacio de westminster #palace of westminster #london #londres #inglaterra #england #united kingdom #reino unido #europe #europa

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sacredwhores · 4 months

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Robert Hamer - Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

#film #robert hamer #kind hearts and coronets #dennis price #westminster palace #london #1949

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richardsfotoseite · 4 months

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Auf der Westminster Bridge London 2018

Von der Westminster Bridge hat man einen schönen Ausblick auf die Londoner Skyline und auf den Westminster Palace – bei Dunkelheit ist der Ausblick gleich noch ein bisschen schöner. Leider war bei unserem Besuch im November 2018 der berühmte Uhrenturm “Big Ben” wegen Bauarbeiten mit einer Plane verhüllt. Da ich in London kein Stativ mitschleppen wollte, benutzte ich die Mauer der Brücke um die…

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#Bauwerk #Brücke #London #Reisen #Westminster Palace

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scenetherapy · 2 years

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#castle #castles #english castles #billiard room #games room #palace #english palace #pugin #houses of parliament #westminster palace #historic homes #historical homes #english heritage

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fuckyeahwallpaintings · 2 years

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Wall-painting from St Stephen's Chapel, Westminster Palace, London, England, ca. 1355-1363; scenes and inscriptions from the Book of Job, tempera and oil on stone.

today at British Museum, asset number 33214001

Photo: © The Trustees of the British Museum / CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

#medieval #westminster palace #14th century #europe #sacral #wall painting #tempera

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theadmiralwho · 1 year

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My natural gas fireplace Christmas 2022. I found ceramic renditions of Independence Hall and the Palace of Westminster. Probably the only house in America with these two iconic places together as Christmas decorations with a USS Enterprise and a TARDIS.

#Christmas 2022 #Independence Hall #westminster palace #palace of westminster #big ben #big ben bell tower #uss enterprise #tardis

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wardrobeoftime · 6 months

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The Crown + Costumes

Princess Elizabeth's white wedding dress in Season 01, Episode 01.

// requested by anonymous

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huariqueje · 8 months

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Houses of Parliament from St Thomas Hospital at Night - Hubert Arthur Finney, n/d.

British, 1905-1991

Oil on board , 15 3/4 x 21 1/2 in. 40 x 54.5 cm.

#Hubert Arthur Finney #british artist #night cityscape #Palace of Westminster #Houses of Parliament #London

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wandering-jana · 4 days

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Big Ben and the Palace of Westminster. London, England

#travel #architecture #original photography #photographers on tumblr #photography #wandering #urbanexploration #lensblr #big ben #england #london #united kingdom #great britain #palace of westminster #westminster #uk #urban photography #wanderingjana

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wgm-beautiful-world · 9 months

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PALACE OF WESTMINSTER - LONDON, ENGLAND

#palace of westminster #palacio de westminster #westminster palace #big ben #clock #reloj #tower #torre #london #londres #england #inglaterra #united kingdom #reino unido #europe #europa

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vox-anglosphere · 1 year

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A cool way to see London.. in a 1937 Cabriolet convertible

#antique car #London #Parliament #Palace of Westminster #UK #capital city #1937 Cabriolet #touring car #huge fenders

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richardsfotoseite · 1 year

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Palace of Westminster

Westminster Palace in black&white - August 2016

#fotografie #photographers on tumblr #photography #original photography #black and white #black and white photography #Travel #City #London #great britain #England #westminster #Westminster palace #photographer #big ben #uk

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sometimeslondon · 10 months

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Another River Thames scene

This time the London Eye, Waterloo Bridge and the Palace of Westminster

#London #river #thames #london eye #london bus #palace of westminster #waterloo bridge #red #boat #England #UK

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thepastisalreadywritten · 6 months

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Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot

By Ben Johnson

Published 30 October 2020

Remember, Remember, the 5th of November, Gunpowder, Treason and Plot!

Fireworks can be seen all over France every July 14 as the nation celebrates Bastille Day.

Across the USA some ten days earlier on the 4th of July, Americans celebrate their Independence Day.

In Britain, the words of a children’s nursery rhyme “Remember, Remember the 5th of November, Gunpowder, Treason and Plot” are chanted as fireworks fly and bonfires gradually consume a human effigy known as the ‘Guy.’

So who was this Guy? And why is he remembered so fondly 400 years after his death?

It could be said that the story started when the Catholic Pope of the day failed to recognise England’s King Henry VIII‘s novel ideas on separation and divorce.

Henry, annoyed at this, severed ties with Rome and appointed himself head of the Protestant Church of England.

Protestant rule in England was maintained and strengthened through the long and glorious reign of his daughter Queen Elizabeth I.

When Elizabeth died without children in 1603, her cousin James VI of Scotland became King James I of England.

James had not been long on the throne before he started to upset the Catholics within his kingdom.

They appear to have been unimpressed with his failure to implement religious tolerance measures, getting a little more annoyed when he ordered all Catholic priests to leave the country.

A group of Roman Catholic nobles and gentlemen led by Robert Catesby conspired to essentially end Protestant rule with perhaps the biggest ‘bang’ in history.

Their plan was to blow up the King, Queen, church leaders, assorted nobles, and both Houses of Parliament with 36 barrels of gunpowder strategically placed in the cellars beneath the Palace of Westminster.

The plot was apparently revealed when the Catholic Lord Monteagle was sent a message warning him to stay away from Parliament as he would be in danger, the letter being presented to Robert Cecil, James I’s Chief Minister.

Some historians believe that Cecil had known about the plot for some time and had allowed the plot to ‘thicken’ to both ensure that all the conspirators were caught and to promote Catholic hatred throughout the country.

And the Guy? Guy Fawkes was born in Yorkshire on 13 April 1570.

A convert to the Catholic faith, Fawkes had been a soldier who had spent several years fighting in Italy.

It was during this period that he adopted the name Guido (Italian for Guy), perhaps to impress the ladies.

What we do know is that Guido was arrested in the early hours of the morning of November 5th 1605, in a cellar under the House of Lords, next to the 36 kegs of gunpowder, with a box of matches in his pocket and a very guilty expression on his face.

Under torture, Guy Fawkes identified the names of his co-conspirators. Many of these were the relations of a Catholic gentleman, Thomas Percy.

Catesby and three others were killed by soldiers while attempting to escape.

The remaining eight were imprisoned in the Tower of London before being tried and executed for High Treason.

They experienced that quaint English method of execution, first experienced almost 300 years earlier by William ‘Braveheart’ Wallace.

They too were hanged, drawn, and quartered.

*Hanged, drawn and quartered:

Victims were dragged on a wooden hurdle behind a horse to the place of execution where they were first of all hanged, then their genitals were removed.

They were disembowelled and beheaded.

Their bodies were finally quartered, the severed pieces often displayed in public.

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Guy Fawkes (13 April 1570 – 31 January 1606), also known as Guido Fawkes while fighting for the Spanish, was a member of a group of provincial English Catholics involved in the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605.

The Gunpowder Plot of 1605, in earlier centuries often called the Gunpowder Treason Plot or the Jesuit Treason, was an unsuccessful attempted regicide against King James I by a group of English Catholics led by Robert Catesby, who considered their actions attempted tyrannicide and who sought regime change in England after decades of religious persecution.

The plan was to blow up the House of Lords during the State Opening of Parliament on 5 November 1605, as the prelude to a popular revolt in the Midlands during which King James's nine-year-old daughter, Princess Elizabeth, was to be installed as the new head of state.