The Gunpowder Plot (TRIH ep 115)
1605 · Resource
This episode is a Guy Fawkes / Bonfire Night special. Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook narrate the background, planning and aftermath of the 1605 Gunpowder Plot: the religious tensions after the Reformation, the role of Robert Catesby and his circle, Thomas Percy’s access to Parliament, and Guy Fawkes as the gunpowder expert.
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1605
- Eighty Years' War / Dutch Revolt (1568)
- Spanish Armada (1588)
- Thirty Years' War (1618)
- French Wars of Religion (1562)
- English Civil War (1642)
- William Shakespeare (1564)
- Edo period (1603)
- Qing dynasty (1644)
- Peace of Westphalia (1648)
- Reign of Elizabeth I (1558)