HE was the man behind the most notorious plot in British history, yet many have never heard his name. Here is what we know about Robert Catesby, his part in the gunpowder plot and his relation to Game ...

In 1605, a group of British Catholics, including Guy Fawkes and Robert Catesby, devised a plan to blow up the Houses of Parliament. They hoped to wipe out the anti-Catholic political establishment and ...

In September 1725, stretched out on the deck of his sloop anchored near Andros Island in the Bahamas, the English naturalist Mark Catesby was gazing at the dark sky above. For three nights he had been ...

“Game of Thrones” star Kit Harington will play his ancestor Robert Catesby, the mastermind behind the failed Gunpowder Plot, in “Gunpowder,” an upcoming BBC miniseries. Catesby was the leader of the ...

When Gunpowder premieres on HBO Dec. 18, viewers will be expecting action-packed drama. But, this drama comes with a side of very real history, and Robert Catesby from Gunpowder is a real person. In ...

As the super-cutting-edge "Act/React" exhibition slows to its close on Jan. 11, Milwaukee Art Museum has a number of other exhibitions on view. One that is perhaps the opposite of "Act" in some ways ...

It is no secret that the 18th-century British natural history artist Mark Catesby occasionally copied the work of his predecessors. His sketch of a land crab bears a striking resemblance to a ...

Mark Catesby, “The Summer Duck” (1722-26), watercolor and bodycolor heightened with gum arabic, over traces of pencil (courtesy Royal Collection Trust, © Her ...