The Gunpowder Plot - Full Documentary
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- Опубліковано 11 лис 2019
- The Gunpowder Plot - Full Documentary
Commemorated annually on 5th November, Guy Fawkes' plan to blow up the Houses of Parliament - immortalised as the Gunpowder Plot - we will live forever as one of history's most audacious acts of treason.
The murder of newly crowned James I was plotted in 1605 by a group of high-born 'Papist Malcontents', a soldier of fortune Fawkes, being entrusted to light the fuse in the Commons cellars. After an eleventh-hour tip-off, the plotters were discovered, tortured and executed. Here, superb recreations and reconstructions tell the full dramatic story.
Guy fawkes!! The only person to enter parliment with honest intent!!
This joke was funny when i first heard it
Hasn t aged well since 1609
I swear this is the top-rated comment of every Guy Fawkes video in existence
Except his intent wasn't honest , he sneaked in to plant and light bombs.
@@beowulf1312guy Fawkes never existed it’s a fake story
Look at Andy and Dave getting jealous 😂😆
The "Evil" guy Fawkes.
Only man to ever enter parliament with honest intentions
@SAP 23 1985
Don't forget the janitor! Clean the
s#!$ out😂
Lol, heard that joke a thousand times
@@Kelly14UK a thousand and one
Makes you wonder if he wasn't right! Take today due to the current situation with the virus, people losing their livelihoods and yet MP's still getting paid whilst the rest of us are struggling! They didn't give a shit then and they don't give shit now, they won't suffer like the rest of us, no Fawkes had the best solution!
I was thinking how young Starkey looks lol this doc is almost 30 years old!
David Starkey is excellent 👌
A brilliant presentation! 👏🏻 10/10
Excellent! Really appreciate David Starkey, whatever his age.
WHAT, is THAT Starkey? How old is this thing? I recognozed his voice, but thought it was just someone that sounden like him.
A proper historian. I miss him greatly on television.
Good heavens, how old is this documentary? David Starkey looks younger than me!
1993 (as it says in the end credits)
I love seeing a good plot come together! Cecil.
Cecil was a turd
" Remember, burning is much more horrible in England, than it is in Spain."
Never heard that one before.
@Paul Hoye
He went on to say that the wet English climate arguably led to prolongued burnings and agony as compared to the swift burnings, and deaths, in Spain.
@Paul Hoye
I agree - pure evil ! What kind of jaded mind can wish such a terrible death on another human being and then hope that it will be even more painful than elsewhere, in this case Spain ???
Yes. Because the difference between the temperature when burning at the stakes compared to the average year round outside temperature is bigger in England..
Me to
they require more logs on the fires in england due to the climate, the spanish like to get it done quickly . in case it interferes with their siesta time
It's strange and tragic that both sides were so willing to commit violent and deadly mayhem on the other side while they ostensibly worship Jesus, the Prince of Peace, who eschewed violence and went to His death willingly.
It's strange how those faucets Jesus' life are ignored. Jesus' ethics is to ethical and sacrificial for most ?Christians?.
Great program thanks very much for. Posting 😊
Referring to Henry as “colorful” 🤨😂
This is a prime example that we all deserve a 2nd chance.
I have always seen the Gunpowder Plot as more political than religious. By 1605 many Englishmen of either religion had become truly alienated by the way in which King James' Scottish favourites had headed south with him in 1603 and been given posts, placements, patronage, preferments to such an extent that the English nobles felt alienated. To me the Gunpowder Plot's main purpose was to get rid of the Scots in English government.
How interesting 🙂
I think religion and politics are kind of the same thing, man made creations used to control people and subjugate them. I don't know much about history but would guess at first the government hated religion and wanted to get rid of it. Then they saw how they could use it and that's how we got churches on every street corner and generations brainwashed into that "belief system" for hundreds of years. And then it got woven into the establishment, God Bless America, God Save The Queen, etc. Fast forward a few hundred / a thousand years and people have no idea what's real or made up anymore.
That is a great, completely agreeable conclusion.
Countless conflicts throughout history have showed this intertwined complex between politics and religion. They drive and influence each other to one extent or another.
Throughout history, we have witnessed, time and time again, political goals being pursued under the guise of religious righteousness.
Even in the present day, when the religious aspect of such complex appears, on the surface, to be somewhat diluted, we still see it playing its intended role, perhaps no more obvious than the current conflict between Israel and Palestine, as well as the instability in neighbouring countries. Be it Shia against Sunny Islam in Iraq, or Judaism against Islam in Palestine, religion is no less playing its role in furthering political, geopolitical and general economic interests.
In my view, it is absolutely sound to conclude that the same "politico-religious" dynamic was at play during the time leading up to the Gunpowder Plot.
Political, but surely more about foreign - i.e. Papal - loyalties. Given that Papal preeminence had been France and Spain's excuse to intervene in the past, it wasn't entirely bigoted.
That’s just wrong!
I did my ancestry an found this man was my 15th great grandfather did research an boy a lot of my family was evolved in this so im doing obviously more research
Fun fact found out Kit aka Jon Snow is also relative to Catesby
Interesting.
Great documentary, the medieval baroque music at the end was quality.
It's neither Mediaeval nor Baroque, but about right for 1605 - which is more than you can say for the costumes.........
@@thomasmiles9068 it sounded like baroque to me but the costumes look like they had a rumage around the costume department of pirates of the Caribbean 😂
It looked like The picture of Guy Fawkes, he went on to play Citizen Smith in another life. Power to the people.
Those who died in the courtyard were the lucky ones
No kidding.
Old school prof Starkey was a surprise
@Brenda Harper reading this gave me the shits
Great doc. always wondered about the real meaning to the Guy fawkes deal was about.
1:00 what is this piece of music called?
Some rave song 👍
Excellent!
How come, that NOBODY could have STOPPED this MONSTER MARY tudor......
Hi dave nice to see you lol
2:25 the portrait thought to be Catherine is now being said to be Mary Tudor, one of Henry’s sisters
Always loved to go out on Guy fawkes night to the bonfire on the green. My nieces and nephews would spend hours making up a "Guy" and going round the neighborhood. "PENNY FOR THE GUY" and being very insulted if all they got was a penny.
It would have killed SOOOOO MANY innocent people like mothers with their children. It MUST have been STOPPED......
People should know that this presentation of the Gunpowder Plot assumes things that while theoretically possible historians commonly see as unlikely. In particular, the notion that Salisbury had manipulated the plot behind the scenes from early on IS NOT well supported in the evidence. That is even more the case with the idea Percy tried to turn himself in. Rather, it is thought that the government did not know of the plot (at least not more than vague whispers) until the Monteagle Letter (which is thought to be either from one of the plotters trying to save the life of a Catholic supporter or an invention of Monteagle himself to give him an excuse to spill the beans on the plot without having to awkwardly explain how he knew of it).
Knowing this changes the story quite a bit compared to what shown here - from the plot being the hairbrained notion of a few Catholic hotheads that a devious government mastermind turns into the ideal vehicle for keeping dissenters in line to to a still amateurish plot that might have worked except that too many people were involved, one of which warned off Monteagle in a letter (or Monteagle learned of the plot himself and invented the letter) which quickly resulted in the government figuring out what was up.
Today similar plots (of which there are many) would entail the Security Services following the plotters about until they had committed some act they could be nicked for and had showed their hand whilst enabling the fuzz to mop up anyone else involved. Counter-espionage techniques were quite developed early on. Francis Bacon uses the term "Mole", double agents were widely used & most techniques of spy field craft worked out under Walsingham. Sure the Tudor-Stuart Intelligence knew about it & did what any sensible spy chief - like Cecil - would do.
It's not as far fetched as you might think. Cecil family had a habit of setting up entrapment situations to cause the removal of persons dangerous to the state. Mary Queen of Scots is a prime example. While Walsingham and lord Burleigh were gone. They left a very strong what we would call these days secret service. Network of agents skilled cryptography assets. I think Sailsbury had some hand in it. Maybe not as much as this documentary implies but certainly some hand
My question will dive into the realm of alternative history (something which I try to avoid but it could be very interesting in this instance).
How do you see British history panning out over the next half century in the event that the plot turns out successful?
@@WORKERS.DREADNOUGHT That's a good point. It would've been greatly beneficial to allow the plot to develop, not least to understand which persons were involved, and under what motives.
The relatively recent Liquid Bomb Plot is a great example of this investigative practice. You allow the plot to develop as far as you dare in order to acquire more and more intelligence.
@@leoarc1061 It would have occurred much like it did except that anti-Catholic sentiment would have been much worse.
First of all, the plotters were never going to successfully take over the government. Their ‘plan’ for doing so had always amounted to hoping for a near miracle to strike. Instead, Charles would have become king two decades early with his caretaker government doubtlessly being especially oppressive toward Catholics while anyone involved in the least with the plot would have ended up executed.
As for Charles’ eventual adult reign that’s hard to say. He could have ended being more ruthless and likely more anti-Catholic than in real life. That means he wouldn’t have married Henrietta but likely some suitable Protestant. However, there is no reason to believe he’d be any better as king so some version of the Civil War could have still easily occurred if for subtly different reasons.
Today is Guy Fawkes Night!!!!!!
Brilliant Guy Fawkes my hero! & he weren't evil!
Still remembering…
Narrator -- Peter Twist?
Could have sworn it was Robert Powell.
Imagine is the lady Jane Grey was never executed and she became queen in 1603 what would she have done in this situation
Wouldn’t she most likely have been dead already?
anyone know the music at 20 minutes in, so beautiful...thanks
Darude-Sandstorm
Is this a young David Starkey? Wow
Seeing Starkey with hair is tripping me up
He’s still got hair though he’s dropped the moustache.😊
They never talk about what happened to the families of these conspirators.
I can imagine it wouldn't have been good for the families and there would've been close surveillance for years, plus being basically shunned from court and opportunities
He would have definitely blown today's parliament up exstra gunpowder for exstra kik.
You don't mess around with James I.
Actually, it was Earl "Stasi" Salisbury you messed with at your peril.
To see what our government is today wouldn't he be doing us all a favour let's not burn guy Fawkes when we celebrate out of respect
Absolutely! That's why some say Guy Fawkes had the right intentions. The government today are treacherous.
@@70AD-user45 guy Fawkes is so interesting I wanna learn more I support what he was for our government is shit if only he succeeded it would be so different today
@@kushcloud420
Back in the 17th century, it was all about religion (Catholics vs Protestants). If Guy Fawkes succeeded, there would have been a huge backlash against the Catholic church until they were wiped out. I don't think things would be different today if Guy Fawkes succeeded. Christianity in the UK today isn't as important as it was in the 17th century. But you are right about the government today being shit.👍
I just watched the gunpowder revolution on HBO and I kind of wish they blew the s*** out of Parliament.
RecusTancy?. Come come it’s RECUSANCY no T ...words matter
It would be nice if they taught the context of the gunpowder plot when at school as opposed to this bogeyman fugure of guy Fawkes.
I tend to be pretty sympathetic to their cause at that time. They all seem a bit crazy to us looking back now mind you but you still have people who bow to old privileged people in a crown and believe they're more important than them, even today, so part of that bizarre mindset clearly still exists
A terrible conspiracy that thankfully was taken over and suborned.
7:54 - Today, being Sunday that the King made a long and vehement apology for himself in the council chamber against the papers who flatter themself with a vague hope of toleration and declaring that he never had any such intention that the mitigation of their payments was in consideration that none of them lifted up his hand against his coming in and so he gave them a year of probabation to comform themselves. Seeing that it wrought no effect, he had fortified all the laws that were against them and had made them stronger saving for blood from what which he had a natural aversion and commanded they be put in execution to the uppermost
Says 1605, but the thumbnail is the Palace of Westminister
Why do we celabrete it
Rather leafy for November, wot?
Remember what Benny Hill said:
"No Birds
No Bees
No Flowers
No Trees
No Wonder
No Vember."
Starkey's moustache!!!!
By Starkey's tash!!!
GUARDS!
Imagine fighting over religeon.... Would never happen here in Ireland!
today class, we are going to give 10 things we learnt from this video. Comment what you have learnt
How bout no
NO THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT MY TEACHER SAID
Quite polished and interesting though I feel it fails to show at the beginning just how much Catholic's were being persecuted physically, financially and religiously. It was because of this relentless persecution that Catesby felt something monumental had to be done. Like so many conflicts it comes down to religion - with one side wrongly suppressing the other. Peace is accepting that all have the same rights.
Sure, sure. "Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!"
Did not both Henry VIII and Elizabeth persecute Catholics as well. Sir Thomas More comes to mind and the death of Mary Queen of Scots was extremely suspicious. Obviously there were others during their reigns who were persecuted for this reason though not presented as such in this documentary.
3:24 WHAT'S THAT ON STARKEY'S FACE!?
He's a slug balancer...
@@NorrisHistoryCorner Does he look like Charlie Chaplin to you!?
@Moth Man It was many years ago...Or as David Starkey would say, "yeauuuhhhs."
@@NorrisHistoryCorner Damn. Now I wish that Balckadder had taken on this subject.
"I have a cunning plan, my lord..."
Remember the Fifth !
(Sorry if you see any of my comments with timestamps, I'm doing a history assignment where I have to copy and paste evidence and give an account about how the information is relevant and talk about what happens, the reason why I'm doing it on a lengthy video is because I can't find any websites that go in depth to the situation)
(also I will delete them when I am finished everything because they may be bothering to look at)
It's not a bad idea to be fair
An dont bring swords to a gun fight !
Damn, I miss read the tittle, I thought it read "The Gunpowder Plot 2022", I should of gone to Specsavers! Vote Reform UK!
Dissociate, not Dis-associate
Has this been aired as entertainment or a suggestion ? 😢
😆
11:14 3000 pounds fine in 1605 is the equivelant of $2.14M USD in 2023
How did this change the country AND what impact does it have to this day, aside from bonfire night and fireworks?
GUY FAWKES UP PLOT TO KILL KING!!
5:48
David starkeys moustache 😂
James the First was a Catholic but he reneged!
Sadly early members of my family were related to Catesby!!!
King James was a Protestant
(8:38 - 9:25) and so now a new feeling swept through the embittered Catholic community that of betrayal. With hope of legitimate salvation fading fast, the thoughts of certain gentlemen turned to rebellion. It would clearly need force to eject the hated Protestant King and replace him with a Catholic who would restore the Old Religion. Those who entertained such fancible thoughts completely overlooked two very important points. Firstly that the country was Protestant and England nation with many associating Catholicism with foreign collution and danger. And Secondly, there had been Popish plots before and without exception all had failed. The poor tense for a Catholic uprising, were not good.
The first Union Flag of Britain dates back to His Majesty King James the 1st.
The strong Catholic foot hold was Ireland.. not so much England any more at this day.
Such poofy floofy fashion 10:38
Good God was that a young David Starkey with an arse tickler under his nose?
My class 🤣😂🤣🤣😂😂😂🤣😂😂😂😂🤣😂😂😂🤣😂
I used to think of Guy Fawkes as a terrorist, but the way our government is behaving.......
He was a terrorist. Doesn't matter whether you like what he did or not. A terrorist is a terrorist, no matter their motives. This kind of thing is terrorism.
@@remaster1981 By all accounts he was a nasty piece of work, more hired killer than out and out terrorist, but the act itself was, yes, terrorism. It's worth thinking though, when does one mans terrorist become another man's freedom fighter?
@@mpaul4584 agreed. Im with you there.
OMG Russell Starkey as a boy, almost
I was just thinking that! What a nice little boy he was then!
ho preso 4 a matematica🎉🎉🎉🎉
To kill and die for religious pride, is idiotic.Not much worse than a fanatic.
Religion...the root of all evil 😮
His mask was a hit though. 👺
Ross feeds his dogs chocolate
My ancestor Sir William Wade was directly involved in the Gunpowder Plot and helped to stop it.
Not only Britain celebrates
This is a very well made and interesting documentary. It was also good to see David Starkey in his younger days. Despite his recent racist comments, he is still an eloquent and excellent historian. He deserved some kind of retribution, but if he apologised then he should not have been cancelled by the harsh, self-righteous wokeists.
There was nothing "racist" in what the great man said. Those crazy loony left wokes and the rubbish they talk, are enough to make anyone lose their temper. Just because he reacted to the ignorant loony lefties with the word "damn", that doesn't make him racist. The loony left were were trying to bring up the slavery argument again, 200 years after it was settled. The left can't move on after 200 years, and that's what David reacted to.
What did he actually say?
I don't consider what he said 'racist'. It was just the truth. I hope he NEVER apologises. Over sensitivity by a bunch of moronic children should be ignored for the self indulgent bullshit it is.
Nobody is interested in your agerly assimilated thought policing; most sane folk are getting utterly, utterly sick of being beaten over the head with it, so you should be made aware of how despised piously smug mindsets like yours are. My advice would be to restrain your need to virtue signal because you think it will buy you cheap social credit.
Who watching this on Nov 5th and been thinking about doing this to Bumbling Boris and his ill advised covid team
Watching this time of year = yes. Thinking of committing treason = no. You first.
Are you plotting to blow up the new parliament?
Starkey loves all this Englanders nationalism, it is however, a long long lost cause as Englandshire is now a land of foreigners. First the Normans took your land, now the muslims have it. Enjoy!
All of this maiming burning killing had nothing to do with religion. Faith was a smokescreen for political intrigue.
who is here from school
me, please tell me you have a goddamn summary of this somewhere and send it to me pleasee.
Policeless and Firefighterless period. Crime & Fire.
Stupid that we celebrate the failure of this plot.
Wow. A YOUNG David Starkey. Now he's been "cancelled" by the Liberal Left.
What arses. Toffs.
He was rude to pocs
He hasn't been cancelled by normal people. I'm still listening to the great man now.👍👍👍
yes starkey an arse bandit of the highest order
I always thought it was odd that Guy Fawkes was the one remembered and burned in effigy up to this month November 5th 2023, and not Catesby the actual ring leader of the plot. I assume it’s because Fawkes was captured first and then tortured before allegedly ‘committing suicide’ (a huge catholic sin) rather than being killed brutally like the others. I say allegedly because he may have just been so weak and delirious that he didn’t know what he was doing - suicide was a mortal sin in the Catholic faith and still is, so it would be an unusual act from a confirmed Catholic ready to die for his faith…..Also, Catesby was already dead having been shot at Holbrook and wasn’t in public view at the end. So Guy Fawkes’ name lives on in infamy and yet most of us are sympathetic to his end, the plotting Salisbury who wanted a major ‘win’ from the King, by seemingly foiling the plotters and saving the life of King James and everyone who was supposed to be killed in Parliament that day. Salisbury isn’t hated enough for his secret ‘management’ of the plot and ensuring that it continued when it would seemingly have petered out. I was confirmed by the previous Bishop of Canterbury when I was a child here in Wales and he was the Bishop of Llandaff Cathedral in Cardiff but I’m now an atheist. I have Catholic friends, Muslim friends etc and I respect all of their faiths. We no longer burn an effigy of Guy Fawkes, as I don’t like the symbolism. We used to have bonfires as children but we rarely had a ‘Guy’…. I’ve explained the history to my sons and we just have fireworks and mainly because we enjoy them and not because of any symbolism. They agree that burning Guy Fawkes is morally ambiguous at best, and even burning a ‘Catesby’ instead wouldn’t be right in modern times, if we did do it it would be out of respect for the sheer audacity of the plotters and the risk they all took for their faith, an administration for those who try but fail, it’s a British thing ! You’re symbolically burning Catholics because of a difference in faith and we don’t do that now. We judge people on their character and deeds and not on their beliefs. If you asked most people about Bonfire Night they’d tell you that they do it for fun and nothing else, there may be a vague reference to Guy Fawkes but nothing else. We love large bonfires in the cold and fireworks lighting up the sky, and that’s it…
Just to give balance Ireland my country was predominantly Catholic in the 17th century and because of this fact was used to conquer and colonise the rightful landowners and destroy its religion /culture. These facts seem to be ignored by certain establishment Historians one has to have some sympathy with the motives of Guy Fawkes etc!
Not one of the gunpowder plotters swore the oath recognising the 'act of supremacy' , that oath was sworn by young men upon taking degrees or diplomas in universities or even government jobs, recognising the supremacy of the church of England and the King of England. As they didn't they weren't technically traitors, but as James was an 'anointed King', he personally could order their executions for it. Very complicated times to live in.
Im oppressed! Yawn...
Potato 🥔!!
Guy Fawkes did nothing wrong
Paul, are you from the BBC? FUCKIN WANKER!
His Majesty King James the 1st.
One cannot fail to have sympathy for Robert Catesby and followers when one considers the inhumane pressures and terror they and their Catholic co-religionists suffered in England during that era, but one has also to question what would most probably have happened if the gunpowder plot and subsequent uprising has been successful. Would the Catholics have shown their Protestant countrymen and women a more tolerant and humane way to solve the religious conflict, or would an English Inquisition on the style of the Spanish Inquisition have replaced Protestant intollerance, with auto dafès in every town and city ? Considering what happened in Germany only 13 years later, resulting in thirty years of civil and religious war, one must fear that the same may well have happened in England, Scotland and Ireland.
It did, only a few decades later.
If the gun powder plot had been successful, the same would have happened in reverse. Protestants would have been persecuted and martyred.
I find it something like one of those things seeing history on this side of the road and trying to understand it is one thing. But without living at that time it is something else. If you know what the Jesuits were doing in Protestant countries and how they infiltrated and attempted to foment people to try and force a loyalty to Rome that would mean a monarch standing in the snow barefoot for hours until the Pope might want to speak with them. That is also a reality that can be ignored if your only looking at it from one side and from the point of view of people living today with the way our contemporary view is right now.
@@Grimenoughtomaketherobotcry
To a certain extent, yes, but the English Civil War was mainly a political conflict with religious connotations, not vice versa as the 30 years war was, at the beginning at least.
@@reepacheirpfirewalker8629
Problems started happening in Rome in the 11th century when they split from the eastern half of the empire in Constantinople. After that schism the papacy behaved like dictators, which eventually led the Protestant Reformation, the Inquisitions, the Crusades, etc. But the Protestants eventually started behaving like the Papists.
The arrival of the Scottish King James I on the throne, initially brought new hope for the Catholics. One of Elizabeth's courtesans, when James came to the throne said "It's a new world, each new reign is a new world and it's a new world that offers opportunities and everybody saw an opportunity in James, people were actually fed up with Elizabeth, now why should a Catholic see an opportunity in James, well remember who James is. He is the son of Mary Queen of Scotts, the woman who is it were Elizabeth's great opponent is the hope of all Catholicism in England, is the woman whom all those plotters under Elizabeth Riddolph (inaudible) had plotted already to actually hope to put on the throne.
6:33 James her son is now King. It's easy to see why they hoped, it's easy to see of course how James in some ways quite cynically encouraged those hopes, he is anxious to get as broad a base of support as possibly in England. If he can offer them little bit, if he can take a few onto the council and admit a few more onto the court, even organize a sort of religious conference that seems to hold up the prospect of accomadation everybody says 'splendid'.
7:00 - He does exactly the same with the other religious sects tree with the Puritans, again theres a westminister for conference as the attempt at accomodating everybody.
The fried chicken queen of scotland
Mary queen of scott s
You long winded and not spell right
What does. Who is it were. Mean
I find the skewed narration decidedly and distressingly anti-Catholic. Henry VIII is portrayed as “reasonable” for wanting to divorce Queen Katherine for “not providing him with a male heir” when that is absolute bollocks! Every male baby Henry sired died before their majority. HENRY failed, not Katherine. And painting Queen Mary as the cliche of “Bloody Mary” as the royal religious fanatic completely negates the constant profligate execution of religious dissidents during Henry’s ambiguous reign over the Church of England. He murdered thousands after the Pilgrimage of Grace. The latter part of his reign was utterly terrifying for every noble serving him including Queen Catherine Parr. Edward would probably have murdered as many catholics as Elizabeth I did if he had survived. The entire Tudor dynasty was riddled with religious fanaticism irregardless of their pro or anti protestant leanings!
It was a set up. Fawkes was a fall guy.