S8 Ep337: JAMES I, THE GUNPOWDER PLOT, AND THE RISE OF THE MIDDLING SORT Colleague Jonathan Healey. King James I faces a divided England upon his accession, navigating religious tensions between Catholics, Puritans, and the mainstream. The 1605 Gunpowder Plot, a ra
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 19 January 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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| 0:46.5 | bachelor it is 1605 in london a discovery is made in the vaults below the building where the king and his family |
| 0:57.5 | will gather for an important representation. To court, the king is James I of England, James |
| 1:04.6 | the 6th of Scotland. He is the beginning monarch that understands the challenge ahead of him |
| 1:13.1 | is to deal with a country that is both rich and divided, |
| 1:16.8 | divided by religion, divided by government, |
| 1:20.3 | divided by region, divided by the vicissitudes of nature. |
| 1:25.7 | And I now turn to Jonathan Healy, His new book, The Blazing World, |
| 1:31.9 | introduces James I as a way of understanding what we remember in America as the English |
| 1:38.8 | Revolutionary Times, very violent, extremely difficult to generalize about, and leading to the glorious |
| 1:48.0 | revolution that was the sponsor of peace and stability in the 18th century, and the imperial |
| 1:55.0 | project then became serious, the building of the Great British Empire. Jonathan is an historian. He's an associate professor in social history at Oxford University. |
| 2:05.6 | Jonathan, congratulations and a very good evening to you. The Gunpowder Plot. Remember, remember the 5th of November. |
| 2:12.6 | The attempt by a small group of men, Catholics, to destroy James I. |
| 2:18.3 | Why? What was their motive and what did James make of it? |
| 2:22.3 | Good evening to you, Jonathan. |
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