This episode of the Alnwick Castle Podcast is one to remember, remember, as we begin with the introduction of our new co-host, our head guide at the castle, Deborah! She and regular host Daniel will take you back a little over 400 years to the time of Henry Percy, the 'Wizard Earl' of Northumberland, and his troublesome cousin - and Constable of Alnwick Castle - Thomas Percy.
On the 5th November 1605, the Gunpowder Plot, an attempt to kill King James VI & I, was uncovered, and Thomas Percy was a principal conspirator. In this episode, we look into his time as Constable at Alnwick, and the events both before and after the discovery of Guy Fawkes under the Houses of Parliament.
Research for this episode would not have been possible without Antonia Fraser's 'Terror and Faith in 1605', the writing of Cambridge University's Mark Nicholls, and the archival work of Colin Shrimpton.
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