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James Sharpe

James Sharpe is professor of history at the University of York

Among his books are Instruments of Darkness: Witchcraft in Early Modern England (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997) and Dick Turpin: The Myth of the English Highwayman (Profile, 2004).

James Sharpe’s latest book is Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot (Profile, 2005)

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The Gunpowder Plot: history's present

The popular celebration of a defeated Catholic terrorist conspiracy in 1605 raises uncomfortable questions about how history is memorialised in modern Britain, says James Sharpe.