The Real Story of Guido Fawkes | The Gunpowder Plot of 1605
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- The Real Story of Guido Fawkes | The Gunpowder Plot of 1605
Tensions were high in England in late October 1605, when a Catholic English nobleman, Lord Monteagle, received a mysterious letter telling him to avoid the opening of Parliament in a few days time. The letter would come to foil the plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament and kill the Protestant king, James I and IV: the Gunpowder Plot. Every year we celebrate this defining moment in British history, but the jovial atmosphere is a far cry from the origins of the tradition, which has its heart in deep social unrest and fever pitch religious tension.
We may well be warned to remember remember the 5 November, but not many of us know the true story behind Guy Fawkes, the plot’s most famous conspirator and one of British history’s most notorious figures. In today’s world, it can be hard to envisage an England so riven with tension between Catholics and Protestants that 13 men would risk everything to try to kill the king and destroy one of London’s most famous monuments. But by tracing his childhood, through his schooldays to his religious conversion from Protestantism to Catholicism, alongside the context of the period, we can try to understand what may have driven Guy Fawkes to such extreme measures, and learn more about British religious identity by doing so.
In this video, historian Helen Carr goes on a road trip to York to discover more about the man who would try to sabotage parliament and who we remember to this day for his deep religious conviction.
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Many years ago, I went on a Geography field trip to Yorkshire. One day, we visited Mother Shipton's Well. In the pub opposite, we sat at a really old gate-leg table.
In the top of the table was an engraved silver metal plate.
It read; "Bought from the sale of the personal effects of Guy Fawkes..."
More Helen Carr please
Helen is absolutely lovely, adorable, brilliant and wears an awesome scarf 🥰
"The Only Man Ever to Enter Parliament with Honest Intentions"
Absolutely
...to replace it with a Spanish-style Catholic absolutist monarchy.
Fascinating! I really enjoyed this well-made video, Helen.
Love your work, Helen 👍
Guy was not the mind behind the plot. He was just a mercenary
True the Percy family from Newcastle were
Very interesting! Never knew the story behind Guy Fawkes. Shame on me! Also great to learn some of the history of the time. Many thanks!
Good on you for admitting that and glad you learned something, may that continue with other history things.
Bet many people don't know much about anything but would never admit it.
There's nothing to admit and nothing to be ashamed of. A very odd attitude some people have that there is shame in a lack of knowledge in a particular area, and even odder that some people think there's something to "admit". I'm willing to bet you know a lot more than most about a different subject matter, and most people happily admit when they don't know about a subject. Judging how most people act based on online comments is very naive.
Nope. Sadly, MOST people are dumb, ignorant, afraid, and narcissistic but not introspective. 🤦🏻♂️
Cherish those who aren’t! We need more of them in the world. 😉
@@ckeilah Nope to what? And most people are not those things at all in my experience. Your exceptionalism is quite revealing I think. Interesting that so many people think that watching a pop history youtube video makes them an enlightened scholar who's above everyone else 😂😂
Thank you for this fascinating look at the man! I've heard of him, and the gunpowder plot, but never really looked into it.
Great film, and I loved "revisiting" York.
Very interesting history, the shop with the famous door looks like a Mods heaven, great video
Violent and horrible times. I'm glad human beings have improved so much and we don't do this sort of thing to each other any more. Wait a minute ...
I think that we have become too soft, too tolerant and either we grow a pair or people will carry on walking all over us
They had to stand up for themselves and they did. They should have just hanged them.
We certainly do - maybe not in GOV (apart from far east / Middle east suppressing criminals which is why their crime rates are low) but crimes committed by felons are getting more and more violent, along with modern slavery now common throughout UK and Europe
We can go back so easily.
@@dafyddthomas7299 🤔let me Google how slavery started and by whom ?
Margaret Clitherow is one of my favourite saints, a female saint who was not a virgin. An incredibly dedicated and committed woman.
."He tried to do this evil thing" I believe is what the teacher said. Really? Evil? Now I am not a god botherer so I have no dog in this fight but it sounds to me like Fawkes was trying to STOP evil. I mean killing priests, persecuting innocent people and slowly crushing women to death sounds pretty freaking evil to me.
Remember Remember
The fith of November
Gunpowder,Treason and plot
I know of no reason that the Gunpowder treason should ever be forgot
You should write that down 😉
@@Twirlyhead I forgot
Excellent! Thank you so much!
Easy way to recall my nephew's birthday. He turned 8 on Saturday 🥰
It's my Dad's birthday too. Unfortunately setting fire to stuff in Australia in November is a bit of a no no.
They had a real talent for torture back in the day. Death by door.
They really had a handle on it.
@@patrickbarrett5650 yes, these people were unhinged.
I don't find these people who did this to her adoorble
@@peterlyall2848 hmm the key to torture, nah lets just lock um up
Thank you for sharing this information.🌹
last month i visited York. very worth to visit and i drunk a pint of beer in Guy Fawkes inn ;i had no clue he was from York.
Thanks for this great documentary - didn't know much about the history behind 5/11 nor GF.
It's incredible how long the burning of the effigy tradition went on for. I know these days it tends to just be 'bonfire night' with fireworks and sparklers and most people don't think of it being associated with Guy Fawkes, but I remember a couple of bonfire nights when I was a kid where a Fawkes effigy was burned. Obviously had no idea who it was or what it symbolised. Wasn't raised Christian. Had no idea about government. But there we were burning a Catholic from 400 years ago.
Those were very different and much more violent times and it is a naive mistake to judge them by modern values.. Guy Fawkes may indeed have had no idea about government but he was a committed extremist and certainly not a blameless victim in this matter.. Remember, it was his determined intention to deliberately kill hundreds of unarmed people.. While I'd agree that the suppression of Catholicism was terrible it also has to be said that Catholics themselves were equally no strangers to cruelty and violence in the Tudor/Stuart period.. After all, the ardent Catholic, Queen Mary 1st, wasn't nicknamed 'Bloody Mary' at the time for nothing..
@@jjrider6758 I didn't mean to imply I think Guy Fawkes was innocent, just that it seems rather barbaric that we still symbolically burned him in the present day, regardless of people understanding the context.
@@HobbesCandie Apologies, I wasn't having a pop at you, just pointing out the facts as we know them today. One thing I've never really understood though is 'Why Guy Fawkes' ? I know he was found with the gunpowder but he was a relatively low-level plotter, Catesby was the ringleader so you'd have thought it would make more sense if it were 'Robert Catesby Night ?..
I don't know if I would agree with you about the burning of Guy Fawkes' effigy being barbaric.. If he had been burnt at the stake in reality or if the effigy was chopped into four pieces and stuck on poles ('Hanged, Drawn & Quartered' style) I would agree, but as neither scenario is the case I wouldn't agree it is barbaric, just a show of contempt for the plot/plotters..
Having said that, like many citizens today I think that if the plot happened now I'm not at all sure I'd be rushing to report them !..
'the burning of fawkes effigy is a constant reminder to the slaves of what happens to those peasants who threaten the monarchy.
@@jjrider6758 I for one, would not be reporting them today. Infact they would have my support
Very Interesting this information.
Saturday mornings at 10:00, mass is said at Margaret's house. Not many attendees, but worth going if you can.
Absolutely loving this channel lads and yup Rooney is absolutely spot on
I have learnt a bit more about Guy Fawkes today 👍🙂.
Great Channel🔆🔅🔆
Thanks Nancy!
History, great...
Helen, smokin'........
Woah...💛👌
We never needed the return of Guy more, Really enjoyed this 👊
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As a religious fundamentalist trying commit an act of terror and treason? Yeah ok
@@monkeytennis8861 Is the word of today,
Trying ?
Guy Fawkes the only man to of entered the Houses of Parliament with good & honest intentions. 🤣
This is why I celebrate the 5th November.
I wouldnt say "good", if it was successful it would have destroyed much of London and killed thousands.
But he was certainly honest with his intentions....
Catholics attempting to blow up the English king is hardly a good or honest intention
It’s just more religious barbarism because of someone’s beliefs
That’s gross exaggeration, what about that time the cleaner washed the toilets?
I celebrate the life of our Guy 😅
‘Converts’ to anything are always more intense in their beliefs, take a reformed smoker or drinker for instance.
All I think of here is V for Vengeance. Which is strangely more relevant then just a movie now.
V for Vendetta
Very good
Zero tolerance for dissent in those days. I had 2 protestant martyrs in my family. William Tyndale, a victim of Henry VIII, and Rowland Taylor, a victim of "Bloody Mary". It would be interesting to revisit their old haunts if you ever get the chance to cover those stories.
He'd get a standing ovation from the public today
You mean the Woke crowd
He was trying to replace a Protestant King and government with a Catholic one. Do you actually understand what happened?
@@Wotsitorlabart Yes.
@@Wotsitorlabart Yes, I know. It's a tongue in cheek joke. Jesus, sense of humours really are in the shitter nowadays.
From everyone
This was an excellent video. The swing in volume is a bit hard on the ears 😂
GUY FAWKES WAS AGENT OF ROME
Why was he known as Guido? -Is it true that the jumped off the scaffold and broke his neck so he wasn’t tortured?-
Next time I’ll watch the whole thing before asking.
Btw more of Helen please!
More of Helen.
He went to Spain to seek support from the catholics, and changed his name to Guido, there.
@@johnsimspon8893 thanks John.
@@grantgrow thanks 👍
Guido is a nickname this I know because I remember a skit from SNL a long time ago I looked it up and it was done by a comedian I forgot his name, but it was funny though he ran with it for a very time almost to him getting Father Guido Sarducio a Monsignor position.
I visited York in September. Loved it and walked by all of this without a clue. Shame.
Interesting video! The audio level is VERY inconsistent from speaker to speaker though.
Great that the history behind the 5th November is explained. Nowadays it seems to be just an excuse to let off fireworks and the story behind the guy and bonfires all but forgotten.
Far from it everyone knows the story behind it
I think the story is still very well known, it's just Fawkes is not seen a a figure deserving of hate anymore, so we just enjoy the pretty lights.
@@MrTangolizard So the yobs terrorising neighbourhoods for the weeks before the 5th November, throwing rockets and other fireworks into peoples property and bins and on the evening of the 5th throwing bricks at fire engines and police cars is all in a historical context I suppose? The whole Bonfire Night experience and the run up to it is absolute hell for many people (and dogs) especially here in parts of Scotland.
@@colin.d I don’t see the connection? When I was a kid we used to put fireworks in bins and blow them up but we still understood what the 5th of November was about
We haven’t forgotten, we celebrate a terrorist attempt by burning effigies of guy Fawkes and blowing up fireworks to symbolise the gunpowder. It’s archaic and quite frankly needs to go away
I always thought that Robert Catesby was the main conspirator.
That was my understanding too. A lot of these documentaries are full of it.
Robert Catesby was, Guy Fawks was bought in because of his knowledge of explosives, however after he was arrested the explosives that was hidden had deteriorated and may not have worked.
Catesby was the ring leader. Fawkes was the former military man who knew about gunpowder.
There's a good channel called Reading the Past on CZcams and Kat has a very good episode on the Gunpowder Plot, not too long.
He was. Watch the BBC/HBO adaption. Gunpowder
Its so fascinating I wish I could go back in time to that very night in 1605 and be invisible ...🎆 🎇 🧨 🔥
What kind of MONSTERS develop these methods of torture? Jesus people are sick.
drop dead gorgeous !!!
Well done, Helen, for saying "homage" right.
Isn't she British?
Not sure he can be called a traitor, just a man before his time.
:28 And homeboy's just sitting there, questioning his whole life.
_Ideas are bulletproof_
Not everyone in England celebrates the quartering of a Catholic freedom fighter. As a Catholic I was brought up with the stories of the forty martyrs.
I think especially of Father Henry Garnet
yup I agree with you and Saint THomas Moore.
freedom fighter? I suppose you weren't taught about how the catholic church oppressed protestants before the reformation or what occurred during the reign of queen mary? Or how the catholic church suppressed science. Britain freeing itself from papery allowed us to become the Centre of enlightened folk. people fled from catholic Europe to migrate to britain during this period to become free. Under the catholic rule you were only permitted one church. under protestant we had anglican, Methodist, Huguenots, levellers, Quakers. I could list on and on. Catholism is anti-freedom. Guy fawkes was anti-freedom. Amen.
As a Catholic you're talking crap
@@monkeytennis8861 Eh no he isn't its actually the truth and Guy Fawkes was set up as they were trying to crush the Catholics from regaining power its All in the History books. You mightn't like the facts or truth but it isn't crap .
It sounds like he was used and took the blame but the perpetrators got away with it.
most of them were also caught. Even Tresham who was supposedly the insider who tipped off the government died in prison.
He was my 13th Great Grand Uncle
Yeah ok
Man I wish Sean Bean had played Guy Fawkes in a movie. Drawn and quartered baby!
He’s certainly the perfect candidate
"One does not simply dig under Parliament building. Its black gates are guarded by more than just ..."
@@christiank1251 “…conservatives. There is evil there that does not sleep. Not with 10,000 opposition members could you do this, it is folly.”
Fawkes actually missed the drawing and quartering part, he luckily for him managed to break his neck after jumping off the scaffold, his friends weren't so lucky.
@@TheBlackPrince447 werent they drawn and quartered after they were hung?
😳
North of Boston USA, realizing The Pilgrims may never have left for "Religious Freedom" had Fawkes succeeded. Our basic beginnings would be drastically different, all outcomes altered.
Fantastic point.
You believe that radical catholic insurrectionists would have afforded religious freedom to a radically Protestant sect, a sect who believed that the reformation didn’t go far enough?
@@elliottdennis2014 Where do I state anything about my beliefs?! I said outcomes would be different, that's a simple observation, no need for debate. Go to bed, Grom!
Did I miss the actor and sources credits?
The Gunpowder series they showed on HBO is really good! I definitely recommend it!
Sounds good.
I totally agree. It follows the story of Catesby the mastermind of the plot which is a more interesting story The ending scenes where they accidently blew themselves up drying out gunpowder is correct and the Hollywood style Bonnie and Clyde like shootout is as well. You can still see the musset ball damage on the walls of holbeaech house, yards from my ancestors home. It dies not show the hanging of survivors at nearby Wolverhampton
Is that the one written by former IRA member Ronan Bennett?
@@lmonk9517 I was not aware of that.
The "different view" the school holds is called 'bias'... Might be something they should teach their students to watch out for.
Said without self-awareness
The [American and others?] Puritans used crushing too. How long did this "technique" take to stop being used? Did it stop at once along with many other cruel practices or gradually?
Pressing, or _'peine forte et dure'_ , was part of the English legal system at least into the 18th century: when a defendant refused to enter a plea (either guilty or not guilty), they were subjected to this torture until they either agreed to plead, or died.
We need another Guy
The audio mixing on this is awful, jumps from whisper quiet to fog horn loud every 30 seconds.
I think Fawkes is seen differently in the North to the standard traitor trope he gets, I see him less a traitor more a person who was forced into action due to others (protestants) I ain't religious but if he'd of managed to pull it off a civil war would of broken out and the UK may not look the same for it
Would have please, not would of.
GuyFawkes very interresting story
Lord Percy of Newcastle was one of the main men in the plot
It's amazing how much is guess work. Yet its history. Hmmm
What do you want? Only so much is written, only so much of that survives. It's what we have to go on.
It's called historiography. The "truth" about the present day is disputed, distorted and misrepresented. Why would it be any different for our understanding of the past...?
Who was Guy Fawkes ? He’s an ancestor or Philip Fawkes and much much more !
Just some guy from Yorkshire
We needs a Guy Fawkes today
We already have enough religious extremism. If Fawkes was alive today he'd be fighting for ISIS.
IIRC, Guido Fawkes worked at Cowdray Castle in Sussex as a young man.
The volume is low, otherwise 👍
??? Who's writing these I didn't even know what they were talking about until half way in. I've seen more detailed documentaries on this subject.
Fruity ..❤
He was a hero
Where did they get the gunpowder? It was a restricted substance
So is cocaine, but millions of people still powder their nose every day.
It was bonfire night, they just bought a shed load of fireworks and emptied the gunpowder out of them.
Sympathising for someone who effectively attempted a mass terror attack and potentially the subsequent death of people who did not follow his belief systems is a sure way of legitimising future attacks. Regardless of his “religion” this, along with any similar events today, is simply not acceptable. History frequently repeats itself, as if people as a race just cant learn from their mistakes.
Lord Thomas percy of Newcastle, one of the main men
Read V for Vendetta by Alan Moore. That’s all I have to say about that
The description should say James the sixth.
Guy Fawkes couldn't light a fuse as fuses were not invented at that time 😅
Religious converts like former smokers, are the biggest pains in the erse & in some moments in time, the most dangerous people.
Novemeber?
The wright brothers clearly built the first airplane and then the first time machine just saying
Us common folk love him because he almost took out the corrupt government. Bonfire night was never a celebration that the government survived for me or my family.
I enjoy explaining bonfire night to foreigners. Especially that it's comparatively recently that it's an effigy of Guy Fawkes we burn. It used to be an effigy of the Pope.
Helen is a much better presenter than the hyper Alice.
No
If you are interested in this subject, and like a good movie, check out V for Vendetta.
I thought that movie had a familiar theme.
First thing you learn about in 90% of insurrections. it was people from the lower upper class instigating it
That’s because they want to move to the upper upper class!
I've always felt sorry for Guy Fawkes I think he showed true courage a great pity he didn't blow up the Houses of Parliament.
There is no zealot like a convert.
Look at Liz Truss. Started off as a sensible Liberal Democrat then converted to batshit crazy conservatism and became a libertarian, Brexit-loving loon.
Because they see how wrong they were and feel the shame, seek to pay their dues.
Whilst interesting, unfortunately this was missing a lot of context.
The Roman Catholic Church was determined to stamp out Protestantism (and other non Catholic religions).
The Spanish Inquisition had commenced in the 1470s and continued on for centuries.
The St Bartholomew's Day massacre of French Huguenots had taken place in the 1570s.
Queen Elizabeth was under constant threat of assassination and the Spanish Armada (1580s) attempted to defeat Protestant England.
English Protestantism was under constant threat from Roman Catholicism and so they took drastic measures to ensure their survival (religious freedom and tolerance not being practiced by many European countries at the time).
Whilst not excusing the actions against English Catholics that led Guy Fawkes to rebel, it does go some way to explain why the situation arose.
protestants are just catholics that don't follow the rules
@@curlywurly1767 hey 9 years of catholic school in french and the strap... their are rules very old rules
James I of England and Scotland actually hated bloodshed. What would a less enlightened man have done when an attempt was made on his life? When Heydrich the Nazi governor of Bohemia was assassinated thousands were executed.
“Novemeber” 🙄 Why do so many CZcams channels not proofread their thumbnails?
"They put her own door on her..." who thinks of things like that?!?! How we got to here without being reset is anybodys guess...
I find it interesting how we burn an image of Giy Fawkes yet it was Robert Catesby who was the originator of the plot?. Mind you Guy Fawkes was an extremely brave man, once captured he looked king James right in the face when questioned personally by him and said openly'i wanted to blow you all back to your scottish mountains' or words to that effect. Horrible times to live in.
But in the end King James did get his union.
It's always been weird to me how we celebrate his failure. I wonder how public perception would be if he'd done it today (regardless of his motivations 😜)!
They would frame him as an evil terrorist
Not just working-class? I'm glad to see there's still a nice amount of class bigotry and double-standards in our society! And there's a lot of us who wish he'd succeeded, especially if it meant we didn't have the corrupt system we have now.
I can think of a few traitors in high positions in the present day...
Someone who had the right idea - the Stuarts, like the Tudors before them were a blight on the nation. Henry VIII man of blood, Bloody Mary speaks for itself, Lizzy died without an heir leaving the Stuarts to swagger in and cause mayhem for the next 150 years.
The Scots weren't that happy about the arrangement either. Our King buggered off down south and never came back.
@@jackdubz4247 LOL! A blessing or a curse?
The Stuarts created Britain and the Union Jack. All monarchs since King James have been descended him either through Charles I or Princess Elizabeth Stuart.
@@Funnybriton The Romans created Britain when they named it so. All English monarchs can trace their ancestry back, no matter how tenuous, to the earliest Anglo-Saxons. The Union Flag is the correct term, as a Jack is a flag for only ships.
Perhaps if he was arrested in spurs he may have arrived on a horse meaning to martyr himself.
Too many annoying adverts
it's a pity guy fawkes didn't succeed perhaps todays constitution would be far more representative of the electorate, mind politicians are just as corrupt today as they were in his times, he was the only man ever to enter parliament with honourable intentions with the possible exception of Oliver Cromwell who had to go to extreme measures to make politicians honest.
Ah yes, Oliver Cromwell such an honest republican that he made himself king. All politicians are hypocrites.
9:46 lol, that's not the reason it's celebrated
The presenter is beautiful.
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