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Lincolnshire's Gunpowder Plot connection
They were real-life Traitors - and two of the plotters in the audacious but failed bid to blow up Parliament in 1605 came from Lincolnshire.
It's one of the most famous events in British history - the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605 which attempted to kill King James I by blowing up the Houses of Parliament.
While Guy Fawkes is the best-known of the plotters two of his friends, John and Christopher Wright were also involved, with John's north Lincolnshire home also connected to the conspiracy.
Karl Bird looks into the plot's Lincolnshire links, including meeting one of the Wrights' descendants.
Image: Hulton Archive/Getty Images.
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