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Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot

Who was the real Guy Fawkes, the man behind the mask?

Sir Walter Raleigh

This wild spirit found himself caged at the Tower of London

Tower of London Prison

The Tower is known as an infamous prison, but it wasn't built to be one

Lady Jane Grey

Known as the ‘Nine Day Queen’, Lady Jane had the shortest reign in British history

Thomas Cromwell

The life and death of Henry VIII’s 'most faithful servant'

The Tower of London and the Second World War

Life at the Tower of London during the Second World War

• Things to see

Tower Green and Scaffold site

Walk in the footsteps of those condemned to execution at the Tower of London on Tower Green and the Scaffold Site.

• Open
• Tower of London
• Included in palace admission (Members go free)

• Things to see

Torture at the Tower exhibition

Discover stories of the unfortunate prisoners who were tortured within the walls of the Tower of London.

• Open
• Tower of London
• Included in palace admission (Members go free)

• Things to see

Imprisonment at the Tower exhibition

Learn why people ended up as prisoners in the Tower of London, in the very rooms where some of them were held.

• Open
• Tower of London
• Included in palace admission (Members go free)

• Things to see

Bloody Tower

Explore the stories of the Princes in the Tower and Sir Walter Raleigh in the infamous Bloody Tower.

• Open
• Tower of London
• Included in palace admission (Members go free)

• Things to see

Charles I’s execution site

Walk in the footsteps of the condemned King and stand on the spot of Charles I's execution, just outside Banqueting House.

• Closed
• Banqueting House
• Included in palace admission (Members go free)

The rise and fall of Robert Carr, Earl of Somerset

Historian Gareth Russell picks up the tale of a scandal that no one had foreseen when the inoffensive Robert Carr arrived at James VI's court.