Hello and welcome to the Renaissance English History podcast.

I'm your host, Heather Tesco, and I'm a storyteller who makes history accessible because I believe it's a pathway to understanding who we are, our place in the universe, and being

more deeply in touch with our own humanity. So today is November the 5th. Remember, remember the 5th of

November. And I have been wanting to do an episode on the gunpowder plot on November 5th for

years, but I keep forgetting. So guess what?

It's November the 5th and it's time for a special gunpowder plot episode, because I remembered.

So just really quick before we get started in on it, a reminder, actually an announcement, that

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ship the week of Thanksgiving in the U.S., which is,

for those of you who don't celebrate Thanksgiving at the end of November. So there we go, just

another couple of weeks till they're going to be shipped out. So let's talk about the gunpowder

plot because even though it doesn't happen during our official tutor Elizabethan period,

the seeds were sown during that time, and it was one of the

biggest tests of the early reign of James. Not one of, it was the biggest test of the early reign of

James the 6th, who then became James I first of England. So one thing I want to say is that a couple of years

ago, I did do an episode on the Catholic experience in Elizabethan England. And I will go back

and put that in the show notes and link to that. So you can go back and listen to that for some

context. But I want to set the stage here for the gunpowder plot with what was happening

for Catholics in Elizabeth in England. I'm not going to go into quite the same amount

of detail that I did in that other episode, but just let you know that Catholics were not

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