University Of Manchester 24 April 2007 New find reveals macabre tale of 400-year-old ‘neo-con’ Boxes in a Spanish nunnery containing documents which lay barely noticed for hundreds of years have given a unique insight into the gruesome life and times of one the first female missionaries to Britain. Luisa de Carvajal’s writings also helped historian Dr Glyn Redworth from The University of Manchester to discover new evidence confirming that a Gunpowder Plotter executed in 1606 was probably innocent. Dr Redworth, who is based at the School of Arts, Histories and Cultures, is the first historian to examine hundreds of letters,...