Gunpowder Plots

Antonia Fraser is the author of several, major, internationally acclaimed historical biographies: Mary Queen of Scots (James Tait Black Memorial Prize 1969); Cromwell: Our Chief of Men; King Charles II; the Six Wives of Henry VIII; and her recent bestseller The Gunpowder Plot. She has also written two highly praised books focusing on women in history; The Weaker Vessel; Woman's Lot in Seventeenth-Century England (which won a Wolfson Award for history 1984) and The Warrior Queens; Boadicea's Chariot. She is the editor of the series Kings and Queens of England, recently reissued, and wrote the volume James VI of Scotland, I of England. Antonia Fraser has also written seven mysteries and two books of crime short stories featuring Jemima Shore, Investigator. She is married to Harold Pinter and lives in London.

Sir David Cannadine is Chair of the National Portrait Gallery in London, Dodge Professor of History at Princeton University and General Editor of the Penguin History of Europe and Penguin History of Britain. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Chair of the Blue Plaques Committee. His major books include The Rise and Fall of the British Aristocracy, Ornamentalism and Mellon: A Life. He has previously taught at Cambridge, Columbia and London universities.