In this trick-or-treat bonus episode of Smoke Filled Rooms, we look at Guy Fawkes and the ‘Gunpowder Plot’.

The aspiring terrorist’s pale-faced, but giant goatee’d grin, is celebrated worldwide for its anti-government symbolism. 

But should political dissenters be using this particular man to further their critique of the State? What did Guy Fawkes and his co-conspirators hope to achieve? And what ultimately became of their plan?

We will analyze the historical context, participants, and the Plot itself while also learning about the grizzly executions that awaited treasonous Brits…

Drawing, hanging and quartering.

Happy Halloween everyone!

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REFERENCES:

Lord Monteagle Letter: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/gunpowder-plot/source-1/

James Sharpe Remember Remember, the Fifth of November: Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot (Profile Books, 2006).

https://web.archive.org/web/20100318043708/http://www.gunpowder-plot.org/fawkes.asp

https://history.howstuffworks.com/history-vs-myth/hanging-drawing-and-quartering.htm

https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/history-and-civilisation/2018/11/who-was-guy-fawkes-the-gunpowder-plotter

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Guy-Fawkes-Day