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. They discuss the plot’s discovery (the so-called Monteagle/Montagle letter), the murky questions about Robert Cecil’s involvement, Fawkes’s torture and the conspirators...
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Around 1605
- English Civil War (1642)
- William Shakespeare (1564)
- Edo period (1603)
- Thirty Years' War (1618)
- Qing dynasty (1644)
- Peace of Westphalia (1648)
- Reign of Elizabeth I (1558)
- Battle of Sekigahara (1600)
- Shakespeare's Hamlet (1601)
- Reign of Louis XIV (the Sun King) (1643)