* UK _had_ a General Election on The 4th of July (both the UK & the US) The 5th November _will_ be the US Presidential Election... Good Luck USA...🤞 (Good Luck World) Please vote Harris👍 And for Trump to _NOT_ 👍 be President again... (Ever!!)
@@wolvespunk Except it is "a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often wryly amusing as a result." The UK election is on a US day of celebration, and the US election is on a day of celebration for the UK. That is the essence of "seems deliberately contrary to what one expects".
Or to use the Original words, not V's “Remember, remember, the 5th of November, gunpowder, treason and plot; for there is a reason why gunpowder and treason should ne’er be forgot.”
As a slight twist, back in the 80s and 90s when I was a kid we used to say... remember remember the fifth of November, gunpowder treason and plot. I see no reason why gunpowder treason should ever be forgot
Sorry but he wasn’t some kind of egalitarian freedom fighter. The plotters did have legitimate grievances when it came to how catholics were treated at the time, but their group would quite happily have substituted control of the country by King James, with control of the country by the Pope and/or a catholic King.
@dannycheesums The king did give the catholics cause for hope that they would be listened to in the begining of his reign as he didn't know how the nation felt but changed his mind which was worse.
@@dannycheesumsYup, replacing the rule of King James with his daughter Princess Elizabeth as a puppet monarch in his place. Aligned back with papal rule whichnwpupdve likely led to the UK having horrors akin to the Spanish inquisition happen here as a result.
When I was a kid in the 60s and 70s - it used to be common that kids would get some old clothes and stuff them with paper or straw and then cart it around on a homemade Go-Kart or pram etc and ask "A penny for the Guy", (the guy would eventually then take pride of place on the Bonfire to be burnt). A good place used to be outside the pubs at the weekend when they used to close after lunch-time drinking as the men would come out having had a few drinks and be quite generous if you were lucky.
We also did that but 1 year we got lazy and got my little brother to stand in with mask This went well for a while until my brother got bored and legged it with the takings 😄
For learning about old English typography, look up the BBC Sounds' (it's an app) "They are all Dead to me" podcast series, which has a couple great episodes on typography in Britain and English spelling evolution. It's not reactable, but they are still great.
A few years ago a television programme built a replica of the Parliament building as it would have been at the time, using 17th century building methods. They filled it with crash test dummies, to measure the injury damage. They blew it up using explosive powder which was made according to a 17th century recipe. The explosion was absolutely massive, and it is no exaggeration to say that the explosion would have killed literally everybody in the building.
Fun fact: The actor Kit Harington who played Jon Snow in Game of Thrones is descended from the leader of the gunpowder plot Robert Catesby. He's also descended from its target James I. He played Catesby in the BBC series Gunpowder in 2017 then left the prop of his severed head from the show in his fridge for his wife to find as an April fools prank. 😂😂
@@reactingtomyroots The first four seasons are definitely worth the watch. The only problem is that in the final four seasons, the writing declined as the two showrunners ran out of G.R.R Martin's source material and also because they wanted to ditch the show so they could make Star Wars movies. This led to a rather disappointing and frustrating conclusion to the show.
There's a video on here Gunpowder Plot with Richard Hammond where they reconstructed the setup with 36 barrels of gunpowder. The explosion is very very large.
We learned all about this at Primary school in the 60's a week before Bonfire night . I'm not sure if our school was typical but it was mainly to understand the fireworks . Simon sometimes gets common pronunciations wrong , the name being a case in point .
In my experience he does mispronounce a lot of pretty common words? Makes me doubt how right he is about other stuff if I'm not already knowledgeable about the subject?
My friend used to live opposite a very old church and had one in her house. We thought it was really cool but the reality was that it was actually pretty scary so we didn't dare go in it! 😂
@@jonathancauldwell9822It would have been the Latinised version of Guy Fawkes's name, but it's still pronounced Gee-doh, not to be confused with Jee-doh.
A fine example of the language of the time is to be found in Shakespeare, as you mentioned. 36 barrels of gunpowder, confined in a cellar beneath the palace, would have "brought the house down."
Nothing to do with religion in Northern Ireland, the split is whether Northern Ireland should be in the UK or be in all irish republic separate from britain.In the republic.It was not always so binary many Protestants were leaders of many irish rebellions and in the Republic vast majority of protestants are irish nationalists however thats how it is NI,if your protestant you are pro british rule and if your catholic you are an irish republican in favour of british rule generally not always of course.
Hi, just last night here in Bridgwater Somerset we celebrated guy fawkes with a big carnival ,the carnival is 150 years old, and is the oldest one in Britain. The carts are all lit up and people singing and performing on them as the move through the town. People come from all over even America to see it .
Yes, we did it in the 50s too. At my junior school, each house would make its own Guy, and we pooled half our swag to buy fireworks for the school bonfire. The other half each house's boys spent on a midnight feast to eat after the bonfire was dampened.
V for Vendetta uses the image of a traditional moulded paper Guy Fawkes mask. These were sold in local stores alongside their fireworks. During the weeks running up to bonfire night. Children would stuff old clothes with newspaper to make a "Guy", and attach a Guy mask. Then they would take it around the streets asking for, "A penny for the Guy". On Bonfire Night the Guy was burnt on top of the bonfire.
I live in the U.K. and I’d never seen one of those masks or one like it until that film came out,mind you I’m only 52.so there a chance it could be before my time I guess.
@@GC-wj6ni Search for old B&W photos of "Penny For The Guy" for examples. Back in the 1960s/70s they would be sold in every newsagents shop, alongside the fireworks.
One of my favourite days of the year 😊 going to my local farm to collect apples for making chocolate apples, getting wrapped up and going to see fireworks at a local scouts club. It’s so important to teach little ones about their heritage and culture too ❤
KIt Harrington who played Jon Snow in Game of Thrones is descended from Robert Catesby and played him in the TV drama Gunpowder. That type of handwiting is called copperplate
'gweedo' is how everyone i know pronounces his name, because it souds spanish Robwords has done some stuff with Old English, might take some searching, also 'words unravelled'
In Spanish, Gweedo would be spelt _Güido,_ whereas Geedo (hard 'g') is spelt _Guido._ The 'u' is there to stop the 'g' becoming soft in front of the 'i', as in Heedo. Guy-do would be spelt _Gaido._
Loved it when I was a kid. All the kids down the street had a bonfire in the back gardens and spent weeks gathering wood in the woods! We made a guy and Dad bought a box of fireworks . He was in charge and Mum looked out of the window.
... while doing the hot dogs, jacket potatoes etc for us all to scoff... For some reason, our mum used to also do mugs of soup as well. For some reason, Dad never managed to get the Catherine Wheels to spin properly.
There is a channel called RobWords who does videos about English and its history. Just last week he did a video about the origins of the alphabet and how J and I were the same and how they became different
It's 8pm Monday 4th November and fireworks have been going off here for 3 hours. They started last Thursday, Hallowe'en for some odd reason. My cat doesn't mind them because he's old but many people have pets that are terrified for a month by fireworks. Then it'll start back up for New Year. I really wish they would go back to old style fireworks that looked pretty and only a few gave you a huge "BANG". Or only sell them to public events. One night, get it done and no more till next year.
When we were kids , many years ago, we would make an effigy out of old clothes stuffed with newspapers, and we would take it out in the streets and ask passers by for "A Penny for the Guy".....eventually the Guy would end up on top of the Bonfire, to be burned while we all cheered...who said the English are weird ?
9:32 Now people hate eachother because of politics instead. That's the only thing that's changed. Also, this video misses out that before Elizabeth, her Catholic half sister Mary was queen and she was persecuting and murdering Protestants. It went both ways, it's not like only catholics were being victimised.
Protestants were persecuted in Spain until quite recently. Prior to 1992 non-Catholics could not openly worship. They had to worship in private premises with no external notice that services were being held.
Oh definitely but Henry VIII is ultimately to blame. His inability to resist the instructions of his tool cost hundreds if not thousands of lives. He should be up there with Hitler in terms of evils committed. James I was of strong Catholic pedigree which seemed to skip him and continue in the rest of his offspring. It was a funny time period.
What's also strange to think about Guy Fawkes night was also exported around the world as the British Empire grew. So in New Zealand we also celebrate Guy Fawkes night on Nov 5th and from Nov 2-5th it's the only time fireworks is sold legally. So we all buy it and then "store it" for other celebrations like New Years Eve etc.
Theres slso mischievous night on the 4th (or its the 4th where my family is from). Which kids used to used to do things that would annoy you but not actually be that bad. As kids we played knock-a-dooor run or hide silly things where the house holder wouldnt think of looking (like the bucket of/for ash from the fire)
There is video about old English letters no longer used that explains the whole "ye olde" , for example "LOST LETTERS OF THE ALPHABET: 9 letters we stopped using"
V for Vendetta has nothing to do with the Guy Fawkes story. The Vendetta mask has only been seen since the film was made. You have to remember that the old Parliament building was likely made from mostly wood so the explosion would have destroyed it completely. It was destroyed by fire in 1834 and was rebuilt in 1840-1847, and that is the building you see today.
Writing a letter to your cousin, who is an MP, to warn him not to attend the State opening of Parliament is definitely a breach of operational security. The best way to keep a secret is not to tell anyone.
V for Vendetta is an American movie . But it is based on a British graphic novel and filmed in the UK obviously. Nothing to do with Guy Fawkes, his actions inspire the story (without spoiling it)
The amount of gunpowder depends on what barrels they used. Old barrels used for dry goods could hold about 100 pounds in volume, so on that basis it could have been 3600 pounds of black powder.
The V character in V for Vendetta was originally supposed to change masks & costumes for each of his acts of vengeance. The comic (not the much-later movie) opens with him destroying Parliament so the Fawkes costume makes sense. We later see him as a freaky Mr Punch holiday-camp guide. But according to an article by the creators, "Behind the Painted Smile" that appeared in the comic, they realised the Fawkes outfit was just so damned cool they kept him in it even though his anarchic rebel acts didn't have the same motivation as Fawkes' religious sectarianism.
I have a friend over in New Zealand, and he told me that to an extent it's celebrated over there too. Google also says South Africa, Australia and parts of Canada also celebrate it, but Australia stopped in the 70's over Fireworks injuries to Children.
One thing to note as you imagine all this, is that the Houses of Parliament that you see today was only built around 1850. Has there ever been a movie of this?
The whole group of catholics that were behind the plot is actually a lot bigger than you would expect. The founder of the secondary school i was lucky to go to called St Marys had uncles that were part of the group behind the gunpowder plot. It was a time of secrecy. hiding priests and catholics behind closed doors or in priest holes. These were holes were only just big enough for a mam to sit crouched up in. The priest couldn't move or breathe too loud for fear of being found. There is also furniture from the time that was transformable. When the kings men came knocking looking for catholics, the whole house was turned upside down to look like they were protestant. There are examples of a wooden alter that folds down into a bedframe to become hidden and many other hidden aspects. The whole time period is very interesting to try and grasp the concept of how it would be to live in those times, both being a Catholic and protestant.
There is a Richard Hammond Documentary, The Gunpowder Plot. Real Truth Science, which describes the plot and recreates the explosion had it gone ahead.
When I was a kid I sat outside the local pub with a life-size Guy in a wheelbarrow, As the drunks came out I would say, as did children all over the country, 'Penny for the Guy'. Always easier to part a man from his hard earned money after he'd got a few drinks inside him..
This all goes back to King Henry VIII splitting from Catholic Church and setting up Church of England, in order to get his first marriage annulled (divorce didn't exist). After this the king and his advisors saw a chance to acquire wealth by simply grabbing the assets owned by Catholic Church in England. After this I think the people who got rich or help set up the Church of England feared what Catholic Church might do in revenge so started suppressing the Catholic faith in England. When Henry's daughter Mary took the throne, as a Catholic, see tried to get revenge and re-establish the Catholic Church. She became know as "Bloody Mary" and had lots of people burned as stake, including the Archbishop of Canterbury (Thomas Cranmer) who had grant the annulment for Henry and Mary's mother. When Mary died her half sister Elizabeth became queen, she was protestant and feared that the Catholic Church and its supporter would be plotting to depose her as queen. This conflict still goes on today to certain extent. In Ireland the land-owners were English protestants the general population where largely catholic, so seen as potential threat. So, protestants were encourage to move to Ireland. The trouble in Northern Ireland were largely caused catholics wanting NI to rejoin the Republic of Ireland and the protestants wanting it to stay part of UK.
According to my mother when I was a small child she said I was terrified of the Guy Fawkes' that they made me, by the time it was bonfire night when we throw the guy on the fire my mother said I wouldn't let anyone burn the guy, she said I kept it for a further two years.! Of course I can't remember this. these days considering our government there's lots saying we need a new Guy Fawkes.
Sorry? We got rid of the incompetent useless Tory Tyants peacefully on Independence Day, 4th July this year (2024) and so got Independence! So we the people did it ourselves. So why do we need a terrorist like Guy Fawkes?‽?
In York and other places in the uk associated with Guy Fawkes they don't burn the effigues of a man. There is also a pub nearby dedicated to guy fawkes.
Before the constitution many American colonies did have state religions where certain other faiths would not be allowed and taxes would be collected to support the official church.
The last Catholic Monarch before James I , Mary I burned over 300 people alive vfor things as trivial as having a bible in English, so who was being oppressed then ?
Last Octoer, I was at the Tower of London with my ex and her friends. Everything was about Halloween. None of the Guards under thirty knew what a “Penny for the Guy” meant, a phrase I haven’t heard since the late 1980s (nor have I seen a single Guy since). The young guards didn’t even know that Guy Fawkes had been incarcerated and tortured at the Tower of London!
There is also that 'bonfire night' is also subsumed into older festivals from the same time (including the original 'Hallowe'en') like All hallows. Where bonfires were burned around the same date.
You guys should react to some of the big bonfire nights and processions. I've recently attended some and they're a lot more fun than just fireworks displays
We always made a Guy as a kid and dressed them up in old clothes before burning them. Never really occured to me as a child how macabre that was! It wasn't until a friend from another country told me how messed up that sounded that I realised we were glamorising Guy Fawke's horrific death, terrorist or not. Nowadays you don't see the Guy being made much, its usually just fireworks and a bonfire now. I don't really celebrate but some people set off a firework or two. I think the movie and mask thing has changed how people view Guy. History becomes romantacised, and I think he sort of symbolises rebellion against oppression and/or authority, rightfully or not. It's important to remember that back then, every time a new monarch swung around it would suddenly be Catholic, or Protestant, or back again, and every time one got in charge entire populaces were victimized and burned or imprisoned. England swung rapidly between faiths usually at the whim of whoever sat on the throne. A lot of people were rightfully very angry.
I live 3 miles away from the village of Lapworth where Robert Catesby, the originator of the Gunpowder Plot was born and lived. He is memorised in the road, Catesby Lane where the family manor was built. Although demolished after the plot, a new Catesby Manor was built on the site and the Catesby family tomb can still be seen in the nearby churchyard of St. Mary's. Personally, I think he should be celebrated in the village with a bronze statue, as a man who really new how to deal with politicians.
Our local fire brigade would make special outings on guy fawkes to dismantle our structure to half, as children would often pile it high with old train sleepers, furniture, and anything flammable, it would have taken nearby flats with it.
Yes, there are YT videos on that particular fiery celebration, and Lewes burns effigies of the Pope too, so there must've been quite a strong Catholic population in that Sussex town, originally, at least...?
@@brigidsingleton1596 Lewes has its own Protestant Martyrs to commemorate. Well before the Gunpowder Plot. This time, it's personal, as they say in Hollywood. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewes_Martyrs
Re Old writing: UA-camr RobWords has a good video on the evolution of the alphabet, others about where words and phrases come from and the Great Vowel shift. "Lost in the pond" also did a good one about the differences between UK and US English and spellings if it's of interest.
@Stephen & Lindsey. .. apparently the 36 short barrels was roughly assumed to be appropriately up to 1 & 1/2 tons of goode qualyte, dry, black powder. This would've been thoroughly devastating akin to the tragic Oklahoma Bombing, but set in early 1600's amid pre-Great Fire London of largely Medieval timber buildings too.... ....
@@reactingtomyroots the're is a documentary with Richard Hammond from originally about 9+ years ago where they partially recreated the old wooden Houses of Parliament & it's undercroft in lifesize in modern approximated manner, complete with an equivalent of similar force & expansion blastwave of explosive to match, albeit with only a quarter or a third of the total amount to scale the partial test-subject' building ...and blew it up (all safely on part of an MoD firing range that is,) to study & better propose how it would, could have been. It was amazingly terrifying and fully awesome in horrific awe, at a fraction of its power within a simplified partial building to contain and magnify it's would have effects ! I'll see if I can find a link to it, or others will/might. YT Search terms (and choose the 101-ish minutes vid ).... *_Hammond Gunpowder Plot Explosion Recreation Documentary_*
This goes back to Henry Vlll’s marriage to Anne Boleyn , he instigated the Church of England a Protestant faith so he could annul his marriage to Katherine of Aragon , and marry Anne. From that moment England was no longer Catholic and catholics who refused to convert were persecuted . Of course when Henry died his three children all had their shots at being the monarch, Mary even returned England to Catholicism, but on her death it reverted to Church of England ( Protestant )with Elizabeth 1 . On her death Elizabeth named James 6th of Scotland as her heir , so he became James 1st of England , and he was Protestant . By now you can probably see the Catholics were very annoyed at being made to convert , and decided the best thing to do was rid themselves of the Scottish King , and get the country back to Catholicism . Catsby and his fellow conspirators hatched a plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament with the king inside and they hired Guy Fawkes basically as a mercenary, and installed him and a lot of gun power in the tunnels under Parliament ( they were available to rent out to anyone who wanted them ) . One of the conspirators wrote a letter to a relative to crypticly warn him not to turn up on the chosen day and the plot was exposed and Guy and the conspirators were captured. So we British celebrate by getting the big bangs that actually didn’t happen on the anniversary of the chosen date 5th November every year, we burn Guy too on a bonfire, but in real life I think he was hung drawn and quartered ( not sure about that but it was the traditional punishment for a crime against the King ) look it up , I’m not describing hanging drawing and quartering here. Kit Harrington ( yes Jon Snow himself ) is a direct descendant of Catsby and made an excellent tv drama about it, he played Catsby . P.S. most of us Brits rather wish they’d have another go lol .
Yes, he was hung drawn and quartered. Guy/Guido actually jumped off the ladder at the hanging stage to make sure he broke his neck before they did anything else to him, having been made to watch whole gruesome thing done to his companions first. They were actually guilty of a criminal conspiracy, but from the time of Henry VIII to Charles II (about 150 years) there were thousands of innocent people who suffered a similar grisly death simply for upholding their Catholic faith.
V For Vendetta is based on the Alan Moore comic, Moore's a British writer. The story is set in England. Even if the film was made by Americans it's a very English story.
Simon watching Simon, never thought I'd see the day 😂 Simons videos are hilarious, he has soooo many channels, on so many different topics, if you want to learn about something chances are, hes done a video on it. My favourite channel of his is The Casual Criminalist, but there's Brain Blaze, Decoding the Unknown and a few others.
Guy Fawkes, born in my home town, York, and the last person to enter the houses of parliament with honourable intentions. 😂 Interesting point of note, guy Fawkes went to school in York at Saint Peter's school. To this day, they do not celebrate Guy Fawkes night, and they refuse to celebrate the death of one of their own.
@@Joe_Sheffield I’m British. Doesn’t alter the fact Fawkes was a religious fanatic who had zero honourable intentions. Committing murder in an attempt to impose his religion and put the state under the control of the bishop of Rome (and the horrors that they invested on the rest of Europe) is not something anyone with any sense of morality could call “honourable”.
Growing up a Roman Catholic in the 1970's I once asked my Irish Dad if I could go to a bonfire, he said did I want to celebrate burning Catholics? I was appalled. I've never really celebrated Bonfire night.
Same here. I am from a Recusant family. Bonfire Night is a remnant of the savagery and intolerance we should all be opposed to. I was the first generation in my family to be allowed to have fire works, but my mother drew the line at burning an effigy. I once went to a neighbour's bonfire party but felt uncomfortable about it.
Theres a 12 minute video on here made up of bits taken from a longer 1 hour documentary, which shows the recreation of the blast and a little bit of background on it "The Terrible Blow 🎆 | The Gunpowder Plot | All Documentary"
Look up Ben Crystal. He has got an Original Pronunciation movement going where they perform Shakespeare in an 'original' English accent. 'Ben Crystal - Pt 5: Shakespeare's accent - Speaking the bright and beautiful English of Shakespeare'
Great reaction Steve and Lindsey. V for Vendetta was an American produced movie by Warner Bros, but primarily filmed in the United Kingdom, especially in and around London, like the Palace of Westminster and the Old Bailey and also filmed at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire.
As to the language of the time, Steve, you need to read or watch Shakespeare. The letter J was introduced into the English alphabet in 1524. Until the late 17th century it was used interchangeably with I and was not recognised as a different letter until the early 19th century. Up to that point the letter G acted like J does today, as in Italian. John would probably have sounded like Yon, whereas Gianni would be like Johnny. So in biblical terms Iesus was said as Yeysus, and Johannes as Yohannes. Now Jesus and John. Hope that helps a little.
What's interesting about the evolution of the name Jesus is that he was not the only "Jesus" in the bible. As in, in a modern bible the name "Jesus" is unique to Christ, but not in an ancient bible. At some point along the line of translating and re-translating it, all of the instances of the name "Yeshua" referring to Jesus became "Jesus", while all the _other_ "Yeshuas" became "Joshua". At the time, Jesus and Joshua shared a name. Just imagine, "Josh Christ". 🤣
I'm a Catholic in Scotland and we were dissuaded by our priest when I was growing up (1970s) to not celebrate Bonfire Night because it was basically anti-Catholic. But I don't think a lot of people followed that. We certainly celebrated it at home because we loved seeing the fireworks, but I suppose the priest was technically correct.
Something important to remember about the religious conflicts in England is that the catholics would have done the exact same thing to the Protestants if they came into power (as they had before).
Indeed. In the modern era, the suffering of Catholics is often emphasised, while the times when the boot was on the other foot (Catholics oppressing Protestants) is often downplayed. Probably because the UK has been majority Protestant-leaning in most recent centuries (although today, religion in general is losing power, with Islam, Shamanism (and other pagan beliefs) being the only ones that are growing). In truth, there was a significant period of a couple of hundred years when both sides were equally brutal to the other when they got the upper hand in power. Indeed, it was because of the excesses of the Catholic church - including indulgences for forgiveness of sin, and torture and inquisition for alleged "heresies" - that Protestantism began and grew in Europe in the first place.
England's enemies wanted chaos. Same with the Brighton bombing or any other attacks. That some seek to twist it now is pathetic wokeist nonsense or victim playing.
Back in the day. Watching films, that featured slow burning line of gunpowder. - I emptied out the contents of some fireworks, to make a trail. Then lit it ! It ignites all at once.
Bonfire Night used to be far more popular than Halloween, health and safety laws has restricted it a lot in recent years. I've always pronounced Guido like yourselves!
I think the American cultural influence of Hallowe'en has squeezed Bonfire night out in recent years. When I was a child, Hallowe'en was very much secondary to Bonfire night.
If you want to see some more about the celebrations surrounding Guy Fawkes night, Tom Scott did a cool video on UA-cam where he was invited to take part in the Squibbing display which involves holding a firework dangerously close to his face. 😂
@ You are so sweet. My husband, daughter and son are all atheist. My mum is RC like me but my dad and sister are Protestant! It makes for very interesting family get togethers 😁 We all love each other dearly so we simply respect each others’ beliefs.
Bonfire night is very much just about having a big fire and some fireworks by 99% of people nowadays. Most of them don't really know any of the history. There were very few effigys about in the 90's being burned and nowadays its very rare to see any being burned. It's very much like Christmas in the UK, it's not really a religous holiday by the 99%, it's a commercial one.
Does anyone else remember the fire brigade coming round and showing us stills of kids with their arms and legs blown off? Proper scared me for life as a little 6 year old lol
I would probably estimate that at least 90% of the people in Britain who go out to bonfires and "celebrate" bonfire night every year don't actually know any details about why they are doing it or the history of the gunpowder plot. I bet if you did a random poll on the street in any town in the UK, most people wouldn't even be able to tell you the year in which the events took place.
I found this video very interesting. The only thing missing for me is, say, a picture of exactly how the Parliament buildings would’ve looked at the time - it’s so easy to picture the current (Victorian?) buildings when listening to the tale. It’s hard to imagine a time where it would be possible to rent space in the cellars of a seat of power like that.
The plotters had originally rented a house beside parliament and started construction of a tunnel under parliament before they found out that one of the rooms in the cellar under parliament was available to rent. At that point they had almost completed the tunnel so it is interesting to speculate what might have happened if the room in the cellar hadn't been available for rent and they had proceeded with the tunnel. A search of the cellars would probably not have uncovered the tunnel.
No, he is descended from the ACTUAL Leader of the Gunpowder Plot, Robert Catesby. And he played HIM in "The Gunpowder Plot", of course. Man, the misinformation and fake history/fake facts and stuff and nonsense people come up with online!
UK has General Election - July 4th - USA has their election Nov 5 - some irony
* UK _had_ a General Election on
The 4th of July (both the UK & the US)
The 5th November _will_ be the US Presidential Election...
Good Luck USA...🤞 (Good Luck World)
Please vote Harris👍
And for Trump to _NOT_ 👍 be President again... (Ever!!)
UK election is boring as hell though. USA one is worth staying up for.
That’s not Ironic though….. do you understand irony? lol
@wolvespunk
I didn't look at it that way.
@@wolvespunk Except it is
"a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often wryly amusing as a result."
The UK election is on a US day of celebration, and the US election is on a day of celebration for the UK.
That is the essence of "seems deliberately contrary to what one expects".
Remember, remember!
The fifth of November,
The Gunpowder treason and plot;
I know of no reason
Why the Gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot!
Remember, remember, the sixth of January...
Or to use the Original words, not V's
“Remember, remember,
the 5th of November,
gunpowder, treason and plot;
for there is a reason why gunpowder and treason
should ne’er be forgot.”
November 5th has come and gone
But the memory still lingers
I held a banger in my hand
Has anyone seen my fingers?
As a slight twist, back in the 80s and 90s when I was a kid we used to say... remember remember the fifth of November, gunpowder treason and plot. I see no reason why gunpowder treason should ever be forgot
With Trump running that rhyme could soon apply to USA
Guy Fawkes, the only person to enter The Houses Of Parliament with honest intentions.
Exactly why, oh, why did he get caught ? Always a betrayer or 2 amongst us. 🤔 😢😢😢😢😢😢
Sorry but he wasn’t some kind of egalitarian freedom fighter. The plotters did have legitimate grievances when it came to how catholics were treated at the time, but their group would quite happily have substituted control of the country by King James, with control of the country by the Pope and/or a catholic King.
@dannycheesums The king did give the catholics cause for hope that they would be listened to in the begining of his reign as he didn't know how the nation felt but changed his mind which was worse.
@@dannycheesums the point is that at least he was honest with his intentions, unlike politicians 😂
@@dannycheesumsYup, replacing the rule of King James with his daughter Princess Elizabeth as a puppet monarch in his place. Aligned back with papal rule whichnwpupdve likely led to the UK having horrors akin to the Spanish inquisition happen here as a result.
When I was a kid in the 60s and 70s - it used to be common that kids would get some old clothes and stuff them with paper or straw and then cart it around on a homemade Go-Kart or pram etc and ask "A penny for the Guy", (the guy would eventually then take pride of place on the Bonfire to be burnt). A good place used to be outside the pubs at the weekend when they used to close after lunch-time drinking as the men would come out having had a few drinks and be quite generous if you were lucky.
Remember those days well.
We also did that but 1 year we got lazy and got my little brother to stand in with mask
This went well for a while until my brother got bored and legged it with the takings 😄
The conflict between Church of England, Catholics, and protestants had nothing to do with hate, it was fully about power.
For learning about old English typography, look up the BBC Sounds' (it's an app) "They are all Dead to me" podcast series, which has a couple great episodes on typography in Britain and English spelling evolution. It's not reactable, but they are still great.
Me too, AHH simpler times back then.
A few years ago a television programme built a replica of the Parliament building as it would have been at the time, using 17th century building methods. They filled it with crash test dummies, to measure the injury damage. They blew it up using explosive powder which was made according to a 17th century recipe. The explosion was absolutely massive, and it is no exaggeration to say that the explosion would have killed literally everybody in the building.
at least. i read that buildings in a quarter mile circle would have been damaged.
Haven't heard about that before, sounds very interesting. Wish I'd seen it!
@@lorraineyoung102 Richard Hammond Documentary, The Gunpowder Plot. Real Truth Science.
ua-cam.com/video/h1b2w4GxBU0/v-deo.htmlsi=xqQwOZR9BrphmimZ
@@jcook3986 yeah watched it yesterday on youtube
Fun fact: The actor Kit Harington who played Jon Snow in Game of Thrones is descended from the leader of the gunpowder plot Robert Catesby. He's also descended from its target James I.
He played Catesby in the BBC series Gunpowder in 2017 then left the prop of his severed head from the show in his fridge for his wife to find as an April fools prank. 😂😂
Great info. He sounds my kind of chap with the head prank 🤣
Also another of his ancestors was Sir John Harington, who was also in the building on the day of the State Opening.
That's interesting! I've never watched Game of Thrones but Lindsay always talks highly of it. I'm gonna have to give it a watch one day.
@@reactingtomyroots The first four seasons are definitely worth the watch. The only problem is that in the final four seasons, the writing declined as the two showrunners ran out of G.R.R Martin's source material and also because they wanted to ditch the show so they could make Star Wars movies. This led to a rather disappointing and frustrating conclusion to the show.
@@justonecornetto80 to be fair the last few books were crap as well
Calligraphy is the visual art of handwriting
Came here to say this😅
When I was at school I was taught how to write using old Copper Plate style lettering and I still use parts of it in my writing. I love how it flows
There's a video on here Gunpowder Plot with Richard Hammond where they reconstructed the setup with 36 barrels of gunpowder. The explosion is very very large.
I would imagine so! Hopefully I can find it. Would be interesting to see.
The Gunpowder Plot | Guy Fawkes Documentary | Reel Truth Science
ua-cam.com/video/h1b2w4GxBU0/v-deo.html&si=YMHWgNliRe032akp
We learned all about this at Primary school in the 60's a week before Bonfire night . I'm not sure if our school was typical but it was mainly to understand the fireworks . Simon sometimes gets common pronunciations wrong , the name being a case in point .
In my experience he does mispronounce a lot of pretty common words? Makes me doubt how right he is about other stuff if I'm not already knowledgeable about the subject?
You should also check out priests holes in old houses they’re quite interesting
Harvington Hall is particularly good. Before our 'Elf and Safety obsession, I was shut in one of them. A very scary experience!
Have to say I wouldn't be rushing to check out a Priest's hole, but to each their own I guess
@@PLuMUK54 The one at Oxburgh Hall in Norfolk is cool too. Let's face it, I'd rather check out a Priest's Hole than the other way around 😳
the ones at Charlcote park and Coughton Court are really good (and Coughton has a big link with the plot )
My friend used to live opposite a very old church and had one in her house. We thought it was really cool but the reality was that it was actually pretty scary so we didn't dare go in it! 😂
Simon often pronounced names wrong. You are right about the pronunciation of Guido.
Except a U following a G isn't pronounced in Spanish, so it's Gee-doh.
Simon should have checked pronunciations unless 100% certain.
Either way it's definitely not pronounced Guide-Oh 🤔
@@jonathancauldwell9822It would have been the Latinised version of Guy Fawkes's name, but it's still pronounced Gee-doh, not to be confused with Jee-doh.
can also be pronounced Geedoh
Look at the signatures again it's the top one he signed after the torture
Yeah, as we were editing we realized that 😅
A fine example of the language of the time is to be found in Shakespeare, as you mentioned. 36 barrels of gunpowder, confined in a cellar beneath the palace, would have "brought the house down."
You've never lived with Catholics and Protesants hating each other. You should look into living in Northern Ireland in the 1970's and 80's.
We are both Christians ✝️
It's still the same today.
@@countryview2020people and their imaginary friends...
I lived it, and it was not fun. Sectarian hatred (religious or political) makes civil society impossible.
Nothing to do with religion in Northern Ireland, the split is whether Northern Ireland should be in the UK or be in all irish republic separate from britain.In the republic.It was not always so binary many Protestants were leaders of many irish rebellions and in the Republic vast majority of protestants are irish nationalists however thats how it is NI,if your protestant you are pro british rule and if your catholic you are an irish republican in favour of british rule generally not always of course.
Hi, just last night here in Bridgwater Somerset we celebrated guy fawkes with a big carnival ,the carnival is 150 years old, and is the oldest one in Britain. The carts are all lit up and people singing and performing on them as the move through the town. People come from all over even America to see it .
When we were children we would get some old clothes & stuff it with paper/ straw to put it on the bonfire, " penny for the guy
Money for the guy😉😉 inflation in the 90s 😂😂.
Yes, we did it in the 50s too. At my junior school, each house would make its own Guy, and we pooled half our swag to buy fireworks for the school bonfire. The other half each house's boys spent on a midnight feast to eat after the bonfire was dampened.
V for Vendetta uses the image of a traditional moulded paper Guy Fawkes mask. These were sold in local stores alongside their fireworks. During the weeks running up to bonfire night. Children would stuff old clothes with newspaper to make a "Guy", and attach a Guy mask. Then they would take it around the streets asking for, "A penny for the Guy". On Bonfire Night the Guy was burnt on top of the bonfire.
Great movie!
The mask comes from V
@@22grenaV used the masks..they'd been about before the movie. The movie just popularised them.
I live in the U.K. and I’d never seen one of those masks or one like it until that film came out,mind you I’m only 52.so there a chance it could be before my time I guess.
@@GC-wj6ni Search for old B&W photos of "Penny For The Guy" for examples. Back in the 1960s/70s they would be sold in every newsagents shop, alongside the fireworks.
One of my favourite days of the year 😊 going to my local farm to collect apples for making chocolate apples, getting wrapped up and going to see fireworks at a local scouts club. It’s so important to teach little ones about their heritage and culture too ❤
KIt Harrington who played Jon Snow in Game of Thrones is descended from Robert Catesby and played him in the TV drama Gunpowder. That type of handwiting is called copperplate
Gunpowder is amazing.Got the DVD.
V for Vendetta is an American movie based on a British graphic novel, written by the brilliant Alan Moore
Guy Fawkes was born in York.
As you get older and learn more about Shakespeare, the more you will wish you learned when you were younger.
Shakespeare is wisdom.
The language is beautiful I love it .
Guy Fawkes birthplace is still standing & is named after him. It's a hotel & pub good food & great atmosphere. It faces the York minister
'gweedo' is how everyone i know pronounces his name, because it souds spanish
Robwords has done some stuff with Old English, might take some searching, also 'words unravelled'
In Spanish, Gweedo would be spelt _Güido,_ whereas Geedo (hard 'g') is spelt _Guido._ The 'u' is there to stop the 'g' becoming soft in front of the 'i', as in Heedo. Guy-do would be spelt _Gaido._
Catesby is fairly well known at least. Guy Fawkes is the one that’s known because he was the one that was caught
Guy Fawkes fought as a mercenary for Catholic Spain where he was known as Guido Fawkes
It's all a fabrication
Guido Fawkes.....aka Guy Fawkes!! And yes, it's still very much celebrated today!!
His birth name was Guy. He called himself Guido after moving to Spain. And it is pronounced "Gweedo", Steve & Lindsay are correct.
Loved it when I was a kid. All the kids down the street had a bonfire in the back gardens and spent weeks gathering wood in the woods! We made a guy and Dad bought a box of fireworks . He was in charge and Mum looked out of the window.
... while doing the hot dogs, jacket potatoes etc for us all to scoff... For some reason, our mum used to also do mugs of soup as well. For some reason, Dad never managed to get the Catherine Wheels to spin properly.
My dad would gather family friends and their families, so we would have a display in our back garden, while my mum made treats for us kids.
@@judithmitchell9065Did anyone's dad manage that impossible feat!
@@Lana-cj2jw I doubt it, they seemed to be impossible fireworks. Although we all cheered if it did work, and then booed when it stopped spinning :)
There is a channel called RobWords who does videos about English and its history. Just last week he did a video about the origins of the alphabet and how J and I were the same and how they became different
Thanks for the suggestion--may have to check that out :)
@@reactingtomyroots I second that suggestion! Lots of interesting language vids on his channel.
As Guy Fawkes was in the employ of the Spanish, he took the Spanish equivalent name, Guido, “Geedo” is the correct Spanish pronunciation 😊
Poor old Guy Fawkes, he was tortured for days, and he didn't give up his co-conspiritors.
It's 8pm Monday 4th November and fireworks have been going off here for 3 hours. They started last Thursday, Hallowe'en for some odd reason. My cat doesn't mind them because he's old but many people have pets that are terrified for a month by fireworks. Then it'll start back up for New Year.
I really wish they would go back to old style fireworks that looked pretty and only a few gave you a huge "BANG". Or only sell them to public events. One night, get it done and no more till next year.
When we were kids , many years ago, we would make an effigy out of old clothes stuffed with newspapers, and we would take it out in the streets and ask passers by for "A Penny for the Guy".....eventually the Guy would end up on top of the Bonfire, to be burned while we all cheered...who said the English are weird ?
😂
Think about the Pilgrim fathers the chose,to leave England because they were seen as too extreme by the established church.
Re my last post most wars are driven by religious beliefs or the fear of the other.
Some were encouraged to leave too
Some of them felt they weren't being persecuted enough. Probably explains some of the Puritan extremism in America.
And liked the land and resources they could take.
I mean.. have you even tried to reason with Calvinists?
The province of Newfoundland, a Labrador Canada still celebrates bonfire night.
9:32 Now people hate eachother because of politics instead. That's the only thing that's changed.
Also, this video misses out that before Elizabeth, her Catholic half sister Mary was queen and she was persecuting and murdering Protestants. It went both ways, it's not like only catholics were being victimised.
That's where the name "Bloody Mary" comes from.
Protestants were persecuted in Spain until quite recently. Prior to 1992 non-Catholics could not openly worship. They had to worship in private premises with no external notice that services were being held.
Oh definitely but Henry VIII is ultimately to blame. His inability to resist the instructions of his tool cost hundreds if not thousands of lives. He should be up there with Hitler in terms of evils committed. James I was of strong Catholic pedigree which seemed to skip him and continue in the rest of his offspring. It was a funny time period.
What's also strange to think about Guy Fawkes night was also exported around the world as the British Empire grew. So in New Zealand we also celebrate Guy Fawkes night on Nov 5th and from Nov 2-5th it's the only time fireworks is sold legally. So we all buy it and then "store it" for other celebrations like New Years Eve etc.
Theres slso mischievous night on the 4th (or its the 4th where my family is from).
Which kids used to used to do things that would annoy you but not actually be that bad.
As kids we played knock-a-dooor run or hide silly things where the house holder wouldnt think of looking (like the bucket of/for ash from the fire)
There is video about old English letters no longer used that explains the whole "ye olde" , for example
"LOST LETTERS OF THE ALPHABET: 9 letters we stopped using"
"RobsWords" has several videos worth checking out.
@@PLuMUK54 yeah, that's who that video is by
Thanks! Adding that to the list, as I'm sure it's an interesting watch.
Some of the letters changed due to the invention of the printing press.the letters were at first wood cut.
V for Vendetta has nothing to do with the Guy Fawkes story.
The Vendetta mask has only been seen since the film was made.
You have to remember that the old Parliament building was likely made from mostly wood so the explosion would have destroyed it completely. It was destroyed by fire in 1834 and was rebuilt in 1840-1847, and that is the building you see today.
Robert Catesby and the last of the cospirators were hunted down and killed at Holbeache House, Kingswinford, I often walk past there with my dog.
Well if you will try to dry your remaining powder by the fire...
Writing a letter to your cousin, who is an MP, to warn him not to attend the State opening of Parliament is definitely a breach of operational security. The best way to keep a secret is not to tell anyone.
Remember, remember
The 5th of November
Gunpowder, treason and plot
I should see no reason
Why the gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot
V for Vendetta is an American movie . But it is based on a British graphic novel and filmed in the UK obviously. Nothing to do with Guy Fawkes, his actions inspire the story (without spoiling it)
The amount of gunpowder depends on what barrels they used.
Old barrels used for dry goods could hold about 100 pounds in volume, so on that basis it could have been 3600 pounds of black powder.
The V character in V for Vendetta was originally supposed to change masks & costumes for each of his acts of vengeance. The comic (not the much-later movie) opens with him destroying Parliament so the Fawkes costume makes sense. We later see him as a freaky Mr Punch holiday-camp guide. But according to an article by the creators, "Behind the Painted Smile" that appeared in the comic, they realised the Fawkes outfit was just so damned cool they kept him in it even though his anarchic rebel acts didn't have the same motivation as Fawkes' religious sectarianism.
I have a friend over in New Zealand, and he told me that to an extent it's celebrated over there too. Google also says South Africa, Australia and parts of Canada also celebrate it, but Australia stopped in the 70's over Fireworks injuries to Children.
Yes in NZ
Australia still had it in the 80s . until cracker night was ban after june 7 1986 in new south wales . each state had own laws
One thing to note as you imagine all this, is that the Houses of Parliament that you see today was only built around 1850. Has there ever been a movie of this?
The whole group of catholics that were behind the plot is actually a lot bigger than you would expect. The founder of the secondary school i was lucky to go to called St Marys had uncles that were part of the group behind the gunpowder plot.
It was a time of secrecy. hiding priests and catholics behind closed doors or in priest holes. These were holes were only just big enough for a mam to sit crouched up in. The priest couldn't move or breathe too loud for fear of being found.
There is also furniture from the time that was transformable. When the kings men came knocking looking for catholics, the whole house was turned upside down to look like they were protestant.
There are examples of a wooden alter that folds down into a bedframe to become hidden and many other hidden aspects. The whole time period is very interesting to try and grasp the concept of how it would be to live in those times, both being a Catholic and protestant.
The two signatures shown of Guy Fawkes were before and after he was tortured. The one on top was after.
Yeah, we missed that, but noticed when going back and editing the video 😅
The 'Yeomen of the Guard' still search the cellars and undercroft every 5th of November ever since - just in case
There is a Richard Hammond Documentary, The Gunpowder Plot. Real Truth Science, which describes the plot and recreates the explosion had it gone ahead.
The audio is out of sync on that video
When I was a kid I sat outside the local pub with a life-size Guy in a wheelbarrow, As the drunks came out I would say, as did children all over the country, 'Penny for the Guy'. Always easier to part a man from his hard earned money after he'd got a few drinks inside him..
This all goes back to King Henry VIII splitting from Catholic Church and setting up Church of England, in order to get his first marriage annulled (divorce didn't exist). After this the king and his advisors saw a chance to acquire wealth by simply grabbing the assets owned by Catholic Church in England. After this I think the people who got rich or help set up the Church of England feared what Catholic Church might do in revenge so started suppressing the Catholic faith in England. When Henry's daughter Mary took the throne, as a Catholic, see tried to get revenge and re-establish the Catholic Church. She became know as "Bloody Mary" and had lots of people burned as stake, including the Archbishop of Canterbury (Thomas Cranmer) who had grant the annulment for Henry and Mary's mother. When Mary died her half sister Elizabeth became queen, she was protestant and feared that the Catholic Church and its supporter would be plotting to depose her as queen.
This conflict still goes on today to certain extent. In Ireland the land-owners were English protestants the general population where largely catholic, so seen as potential threat. So, protestants were encourage to move to Ireland. The trouble in Northern Ireland were largely caused catholics wanting NI to rejoin the Republic of Ireland and the protestants wanting it to stay part of UK.
Those Catholics and the Republic of Ireland government never cared about democrat rights they just demanded unification.
According to my mother when I was a small child she said I was terrified of the Guy Fawkes' that they made me, by the time it was bonfire night when we throw the guy on the fire my mother said I wouldn't let anyone burn the guy, she said I kept it for a further two years.! Of course I can't remember this. these days considering our government there's lots saying we need a new Guy Fawkes.
Sorry? We got rid of the incompetent useless Tory Tyants peacefully on Independence Day, 4th July this year (2024) and so got Independence! So we the people did it ourselves. So why do we need a terrorist like Guy Fawkes?‽?
For old English you could look at Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales 🤔
Chaucer is Middle English, a big older than the Early Modern English of Shakespeare but still significantly newer than the Old English of Beowulf.
In York and other places in the uk associated with Guy Fawkes they don't burn the effigues of a man. There is also a pub nearby dedicated to guy fawkes.
The pub is where he lived
Before the constitution many American colonies did have state religions where certain other faiths would not be allowed and taxes would be collected to support the official church.
'Terrorist', the word violent oppressors use to describe violence against them.
The last Catholic Monarch before James I , Mary I burned over 300 people alive vfor things as trivial as having a bible in English, so who was being oppressed then ?
I live in the tiny town where the Falkes family still live. He was born in a big house on the chevin forest. His ancestors are still here in the town.
Descendants not ancestors
Last Octoer, I was at the Tower of London with my ex and her friends. Everything was about Halloween. None of the Guards under thirty knew what a “Penny for the Guy” meant, a phrase I haven’t heard since the late 1980s (nor have I seen a single Guy since). The young guards didn’t even know that Guy Fawkes had been incarcerated and tortured at the Tower of London!
There is a video on youtube showing what 36 barrels of gunpowder used in the plot would have done, Richard Hammond is the narrator.
There is also that 'bonfire night' is also subsumed into older festivals from the same time (including the original 'Hallowe'en') like All hallows. Where bonfires were burned around the same date.
You guys should react to some of the big bonfire nights and processions. I've recently attended some and they're a lot more fun than just fireworks displays
We always made a Guy as a kid and dressed them up in old clothes before burning them. Never really occured to me as a child how macabre that was! It wasn't until a friend from another country told me how messed up that sounded that I realised we were glamorising Guy Fawke's horrific death, terrorist or not. Nowadays you don't see the Guy being made much, its usually just fireworks and a bonfire now. I don't really celebrate but some people set off a firework or two.
I think the movie and mask thing has changed how people view Guy. History becomes romantacised, and I think he sort of symbolises rebellion against oppression and/or authority, rightfully or not. It's important to remember that back then, every time a new monarch swung around it would suddenly be Catholic, or Protestant, or back again, and every time one got in charge entire populaces were victimized and burned or imprisoned. England swung rapidly between faiths usually at the whim of whoever sat on the throne. A lot of people were rightfully very angry.
I live 3 miles away from the village of Lapworth where Robert Catesby, the originator of the Gunpowder Plot was born and lived. He is memorised in the road, Catesby Lane where the family manor was built. Although demolished after the plot, a new Catesby Manor was built on the site and the Catesby family tomb can still be seen in the nearby churchyard of St. Mary's. Personally, I think he should be celebrated in the village with a bronze statue, as a man who really new how to deal with politicians.
Our local fire brigade would make special outings on guy fawkes to dismantle our structure to half, as children would often pile it high with old train sleepers, furniture, and anything flammable, it would have taken nearby flats with it.
You should watch the lewes celebration’s if you want to see bonfire night done properly 😂
I saw a new article the other day warning people not to go because of overcrowding 😂
He's seen it already
They have moved on, not just Catholics being burnt in effigy.
Yes, there are YT videos on that particular fiery celebration, and Lewes burns effigies of the Pope too, so there must've been quite a strong Catholic population in that Sussex town, originally, at least...?
@@brigidsingleton1596 Lewes has its own Protestant Martyrs to commemorate. Well before the Gunpowder Plot. This time, it's personal, as they say in Hollywood. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewes_Martyrs
Re Old writing: UA-camr RobWords has a good video on the evolution of the alphabet, others about where words and phrases come from and the Great Vowel shift. "Lost in the pond" also did a good one about the differences between UK and US English and spellings if it's of interest.
@Stephen & Lindsey. .. apparently the 36 short barrels was roughly assumed to be appropriately up to 1 & 1/2 tons of goode qualyte, dry, black powder.
This would've been thoroughly devastating akin to the tragic Oklahoma Bombing, but set in early 1600's amid pre-Great Fire London of largely Medieval timber buildings too.... ....
Wow... 🤯
@@reactingtomyroots the're is a documentary with Richard Hammond from originally about 9+ years ago where they partially recreated the old wooden Houses of Parliament & it's undercroft in lifesize in modern approximated manner, complete with an equivalent of similar force & expansion blastwave of explosive to match, albeit with only a quarter or a third of the total amount to scale the partial test-subject' building
...and blew it up (all safely on part of an MoD firing range that is,) to study & better propose how it would, could have been.
It was amazingly terrifying and fully awesome in horrific awe, at a fraction of its power within a simplified partial building to contain and magnify it's would have effects !
I'll see if I can find a link to it, or others will/might.
YT Search terms (and choose the 101-ish minutes vid ).... *_Hammond Gunpowder Plot Explosion Recreation Documentary_*
Time for a new Guy Fawkes in Briton. Over 400 years later, we need one. They need to succeed this time.
This goes back to Henry Vlll’s marriage to Anne Boleyn , he instigated the Church of England a Protestant faith so he could annul his marriage to Katherine of Aragon , and marry Anne. From that moment England was no longer Catholic and catholics who refused to convert were persecuted . Of course when Henry died his three children all had their shots at being the monarch, Mary even returned England to Catholicism, but on her death it reverted to Church of England ( Protestant )with Elizabeth 1 . On her death Elizabeth named James 6th of Scotland as her heir , so he became James 1st of England , and he was Protestant . By now you can probably see the Catholics were very annoyed at being made to convert , and decided the best thing to do was rid themselves of the Scottish King , and get the country back to Catholicism . Catsby and his fellow conspirators hatched a plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament with the king inside and they hired Guy Fawkes basically as a mercenary, and installed him and a lot of gun power in the tunnels under Parliament ( they were available to rent out to anyone who wanted them ) . One of the conspirators wrote a letter to a relative to crypticly warn him not to turn up on the chosen day and the plot was exposed and Guy and the conspirators were captured. So we British celebrate by getting the big bangs that actually didn’t happen on the anniversary of the chosen date 5th November every year, we burn Guy too on a bonfire, but in real life I think he was hung drawn and quartered ( not sure about that but it was the traditional punishment for a crime against the King ) look it up , I’m not describing hanging drawing and quartering here. Kit Harrington ( yes Jon Snow himself ) is a direct descendant of Catsby and made an excellent tv drama about it, he played Catsby . P.S. most of us Brits rather wish they’d have another go lol .
Yes, he was hung drawn and quartered. Guy/Guido actually jumped off the ladder at the hanging stage to make sure he broke his neck before they did anything else to him, having been made to watch whole gruesome thing done to his companions first. They were actually guilty of a criminal conspiracy, but from the time of Henry VIII to Charles II (about 150 years) there were thousands of innocent people who suffered a similar grisly death simply for upholding their Catholic faith.
V For Vendetta is based on the Alan Moore comic, Moore's a British writer. The story is set in England. Even if the film was made by Americans it's a very English story.
Simon watching Simon, never thought I'd see the day 😂 Simons videos are hilarious, he has soooo many channels, on so many different topics, if you want to learn about something chances are, hes done a video on it. My favourite channel of his is The Casual Criminalist, but there's Brain Blaze, Decoding the Unknown and a few others.
The £500 per year reward is equivalent to around $165k today
Guy Fawkes, born in my home town, York, and the last person to enter the houses of parliament with honourable intentions. 😂
Interesting point of note, guy Fawkes went to school in York at Saint Peter's school. To this day, they do not celebrate Guy Fawkes night, and they refuse to celebrate the death of one of their own.
Odd sense of honour.
@MiningForPies ah, I see you're not British, else you'd understand it and understand why we celebrate it each year.
@@Joe_Sheffield I’m British. Doesn’t alter the fact Fawkes was a religious fanatic who had zero honourable intentions. Committing murder in an attempt to impose his religion and put the state under the control of the bishop of Rome (and the horrors that they invested on the rest of Europe) is not something anyone with any sense of morality could call “honourable”.
@@MiningForPies you really need to get a sense of humour.
For a Brit, you've got a lousy one.
Either that or your a gen Z snowflake. 🤦🤦
Guy fawks is a HERO
Growing up a Roman Catholic in the 1970's I once asked my Irish Dad if I could go to a bonfire, he said did I want to celebrate burning Catholics? I was appalled. I've never really celebrated Bonfire night.
Same here. I am from a Recusant family. Bonfire Night is a remnant of the savagery and intolerance we should all be opposed to. I was the first generation in my family to be allowed to have fire works, but my mother drew the line at burning an effigy. I once went to a neighbour's bonfire party but felt uncomfortable about it.
Theres a 12 minute video on here made up of bits taken from a longer 1 hour documentary, which shows the recreation of the blast and a little bit of background on it
"The Terrible Blow 🎆 | The Gunpowder Plot | All Documentary"
Look up Ben Crystal. He has got an Original Pronunciation movement going where they perform Shakespeare in an 'original' English accent.
'Ben Crystal - Pt 5: Shakespeare's accent - Speaking the bright and beautiful English of Shakespeare'
Seconded
I was going to recommend this too. Steve's Southern US accent not as far away from Shakespeare as he might think...
Great reaction Steve and Lindsey. V for Vendetta was an American produced movie by Warner Bros, but primarily filmed in the United Kingdom, especially in and around London, like the Palace of Westminster and the Old Bailey and also filmed at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire.
As to the language of the time, Steve, you need to read or watch Shakespeare. The letter J was introduced into the English alphabet in 1524. Until the late 17th century it was used interchangeably with I and was not recognised as a different letter until the early 19th century. Up to that point the letter G acted like J does today, as in Italian. John would probably have sounded like Yon, whereas Gianni would be like Johnny. So in biblical terms Iesus was said as Yeysus, and Johannes as Yohannes. Now Jesus and John. Hope that helps a little.
What's interesting about the evolution of the name Jesus is that he was not the only "Jesus" in the bible. As in, in a modern bible the name "Jesus" is unique to Christ, but not in an ancient bible. At some point along the line of translating and re-translating it, all of the instances of the name "Yeshua" referring to Jesus became "Jesus", while all the _other_ "Yeshuas" became "Joshua". At the time, Jesus and Joshua shared a name. Just imagine, "Josh Christ". 🤣
I'm a Catholic in Scotland and we were dissuaded by our priest when I was growing up (1970s) to not celebrate Bonfire Night because it was basically anti-Catholic. But I don't think a lot of people followed that. We certainly celebrated it at home because we loved seeing the fireworks, but I suppose the priest was technically correct.
Something important to remember about the religious conflicts in England is that the catholics would have done the exact same thing to the Protestants if they came into power (as they had before).
They were far worse.
Yes, as they did in France.
They were indeed @@MiningForPies
Indeed. In the modern era, the suffering of Catholics is often emphasised, while the times when the boot was on the other foot (Catholics oppressing Protestants) is often downplayed. Probably because the UK has been majority Protestant-leaning in most recent centuries (although today, religion in general is losing power, with Islam, Shamanism (and other pagan beliefs) being the only ones that are growing).
In truth, there was a significant period of a couple of hundred years when both sides were equally brutal to the other when they got the upper hand in power. Indeed, it was because of the excesses of the Catholic church - including indulgences for forgiveness of sin, and torture and inquisition for alleged "heresies" - that Protestantism began and grew in Europe in the first place.
England's enemies wanted chaos. Same with the Brighton bombing or any other attacks. That some seek to twist it now is pathetic wokeist nonsense or victim playing.
Back in the day. Watching films, that featured slow burning line of gunpowder. - I emptied out the contents of some fireworks, to make a trail. Then lit it ! It ignites all at once.
Bonfire Night used to be far more popular than Halloween, health and safety laws has restricted it a lot in recent years. I've always pronounced Guido like yourselves!
Not celebrated at all in NI and to a lesser extent in Scotland
Same here.
I think the American cultural influence of Hallowe'en has squeezed Bonfire night out in recent years. When I was a child, Hallowe'en was very much secondary to Bonfire night.
@@MrBrianholdingMaybe in England and Wales, definitely not in Scotland and Ireland….Halloween has been a big thing here for centuries!
Simon is notoriously bad at pronunciation.
If you want to see some more about the celebrations surrounding Guy Fawkes night, Tom Scott did a cool video on UA-cam where he was invited to take part in the Squibbing display which involves holding a firework dangerously close to his face. 😂
As a Roman Catholic living in the UK, I’ve always felt a bit guilty about having fun on Guy Fawkes night. 😕
Although I myself am atheist, I come from a very devout Irish Catholic family and it leaves a yucky taste in my mouth aswell.
@ You are so sweet. My husband, daughter and son are all atheist. My mum is RC like me but my dad and sister are Protestant! It makes for very interesting family get togethers 😁 We all love each other dearly so we simply respect each others’ beliefs.
Billy Connolly said that guilt is a Catholic's default state!
@ He’s right! 😂
Bonfire night is very much just about having a big fire and some fireworks by 99% of people nowadays. Most of them don't really know any of the history. There were very few effigys about in the 90's being burned and nowadays its very rare to see any being burned. It's very much like Christmas in the UK, it's not really a religous holiday by the 99%, it's a commercial one.
Shakespeare didn't die until about 10 years after the Gun Powder Plot. He wrote 5 or 6 of his most famous plays in the years after the plot.
Does anyone else remember the fire brigade coming round and showing us stills of kids with their arms and legs blown off? Proper scared me for life as a little 6 year old lol
Easy to get away with things:Don't forget,folks,no Police for about 200 plus years after this🎩
I would probably estimate that at least 90% of the people in Britain who go out to bonfires and "celebrate" bonfire night every year don't actually know any details about why they are doing it or the history of the gunpowder plot. I bet if you did a random poll on the street in any town in the UK, most people wouldn't even be able to tell you the year in which the events took place.
Guy Fawkes the only man to enter Parliament with honourable intentions.
great reaction yes we have some interesting history, we live in a museum
V for vendetta is a fab film.
I found this video very interesting. The only thing missing for me is, say, a picture of exactly how the Parliament buildings would’ve looked at the time - it’s so easy to picture the current (Victorian?) buildings when listening to the tale.
It’s hard to imagine a time where it would be possible to rent space in the cellars of a seat of power like that.
The plotters had originally rented a house beside parliament and started construction of a tunnel under parliament before they found out that one of the rooms in the cellar under parliament was available to rent. At that point they had almost completed the tunnel so it is interesting to speculate what might have happened if the room in the cellar hadn't been available for rent and they had proceeded with the tunnel. A search of the cellars would probably not have uncovered the tunnel.
Actor Kit Harrington (Game of Thrones) is a direct descendant of Guy Fawkes- and he even played his own ancestor in a recent remake of the Plot!
He was born in Otley West Yorkshire and the family still live in the house. ❤
He's descended from Robert Catesby, not Guy Fawkes. Ironically, He also happens to be descended from James I.
No, he is descended from the ACTUAL Leader of the Gunpowder Plot, Robert Catesby. And he played HIM in "The Gunpowder Plot", of course. Man, the misinformation and fake history/fake facts and stuff and nonsense people come up with online!
@@justonecornetto80 I knew it was one of them! I also knew of the royal link through his father, but couldn't remember the lineage...
Catesby not Fawkes
For old English try reading Chaucer's Canterbury's Tales. I live the old English but have to concentrate and read it slowly to understand it.
I meant to type I love 'Old English'
See if you can get a copy of the complete works of Shakespeare in the Stratford text since Shakespeare was from there.
The different religions are still a battle all over the world
They are, you saved me from saying so.