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The Gunpowder Plot: a failure of intelligence

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Join Cambridge historian Mark Nicholls as he exposes the limitations and weaknesses in a supposedly powerful system of state intelligence that allowed Guy Fawkes and the other Gunpowder Plotters to develop their plans to blow up the House of Lords.

This talk is part of the Cambridge Festival of Ideas 2015 series.

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