Gunpowder Plot: Tudor Origins

Not Just the Tudors

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🗓️ 1 November 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

The Gunpowder Plot is one of the hinge events of British history - an act of terror the roots of which stretch back to the Tudor period and Henry VIII's break with Rome. It's a story of Holy War, divided loyalties and religious hatred. And it has never been more timely.

In this edition of Not Just the Tudors, first released in September 2021, Suzannah Lipscomb talks gunpowder, treason and plot with award-winning author and historian Jessie Childs.

This episode was produced by Rob Weinberg.

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0:00.0	Remember, remember, the 5th of November, gunpowder, treason and plot.
0:10.0	It's funny isn't it, how, as with divorce beheaded died, divorce beheaded survived, there
0:18.6	are some parts of British history that have become so familiar to us that they're
0:23.0	even encapsulated in children's rhymes.
0:26.8	Because of that, I think it can be easy to fail to put them in their proper chronological
0:31.9	context or to understand quite how devastating and important they were all might have been.
0:40.6	The gunpowder plot is one of the hinge events of British history, an act of terror that stretches
0:46.1	back for its roots into the Tudor period and forward for its legacy to the Civil War,
0:50.8	the glorious revolution and well beyond.
0:53.9	It's a story of holy war, religious hatred, divided loyalties, and the clash between
1:00.5	security and freedom, it's never been more timely.
1:06.4	The guest who joins me today to talk about the gunpowder plot is Jesse Childs.
1:12.8	Jesse is an award-winning author, she's a top flight historian, a scholar of great integrity
1:18.8	and dedication, and a storyteller of great skill.
1:22.8	She's also one of my favourite people in the field, so I'm delighted to welcome her
1:27.2	to not just the Tudors.
1:35.0	It is an absolute delight as ever to see you and to have a chance to chat history.
1:41.9	How are you doing?
1:42.9	I'm great, thank you.
1:44.6	So today we're going to talk about the gunpowder plot and what I was hoping we could do
1:48.7	Jesse is that we could think about it in context, because so often it's kind of plucked
1:52.6	out of history as an event and not thought about in terms of the run-up to it.
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