DiscoverHistory Cafe#31 'Remember, remember, the fifth of November' - Ep 8 Blowing up the Gunpowder Plot
#31 'Remember, remember, the fifth of November' - Ep 8 Blowing up the Gunpowder Plot

#31 'Remember, remember, the fifth of November' - Ep 8 Blowing up the Gunpowder Plot

Update: 2025-08-13
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At the time, London gossip accused the king’s chief minister Robert Cecil of fabricating the entire plot to blow up everyone who mattered and leave the country ungovernable. When Cecil died seven years later, he was remembered as lying and self-serving. ‘The King’s misuser, the Parliament’s abuser, Hath left his plotting… is now a rotting.’ On the first anniversary, 5 November 1606, people were forced to celebrate by going to church and lighting bonfires. Anti-Catholic sentiment has kept the anniversary alive. But if the Gunpowder plot was the invention of a vicious, torturing and intolerant regime, perhaps we shouldn’t be celebrating it any more? (R)

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#31 'Remember, remember, the fifth of November' - Ep 8 Blowing up the Gunpowder Plot

#31 'Remember, remember, the fifth of November' - Ep 8 Blowing up the Gunpowder Plot