November 5th, 1605... beneath the shadowed vaults of the Houses of Parliament, a man waits with 36 barrels of gunpowder by his side, and a plan that could change the fate of a nation forever.
Then, in a moment, it's over... Guy Fawkes is caught and the plan thwarted. But what if he wasn't?
Led by the fiery Robert Catesby, thirteen men conspired to ignite a new era by extinguishing the old. Their target was King James I, his heir, and the ruling elite of Protestant England. And their dream was a Catholic rebirth.
For this Not Just The Tudors Late, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb invites fellow historians Jessie Childs, Gareth Russell, and Professor Anna Whitelock to ponder an alternate history, one in which the Gunpowder Plot succeeded, and Britain’s future was irrevocably transformed.
Join us as we unravel one of history’s most dramatic “what ifs” and ask how differently the story of Britain might have been told.
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