The causes and consequences of Mr. Guy Fawkes by JOEL HURSTFIELD
Astor Professor of English History at University College. London
To say that the Gunpowder Plot was the greatest non-event in British history is not necessarily to agree with those who claim it was a government frame-up. It is to look beyond the plot as it was seen by those concerned with it at the time. and to consider the Questions of freedom, dissent, and social order wider than those which the seventeenth century had means to formulate.
A shortened studio version of a lecture given at University College. London, on October 29