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Lecture

Trudy Gold
Guy Fawkes: Hero or Villain?

Tuesday 5.11.2024

How to watch

This lecture starts on 5 November at 5:00pm (UK).

Summary

Since 1606, on November 5th, villages and towns throughout England have held mass celebrations. Amidst firework displays costumed processions and general frivolity, the evening culminates in the burning of an effigy of Guy Fawkes, the man most associated with the plot to blow up parliament on November 5, 1605. To Protestants, he was a symbol of regicide, to Catholics, a martyr. This presentation will unravel the many strands of this historical moment.

Trudy Gold

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Trudy Gold was the CEO of the London Jewish Cultural Centre and a founding member of the British delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). Throughout her career she taught modern Jewish history at schools, universities, and to adult groups and ran seminars on Holocaust education in the UK, Eastern Europe, and China. She also led Jewish educational tours all over the world. Trudy was the educational director of the student resources “Understanding the Holocaust” and “Holocaust Explained” and the author of The Timechart History of Jewish Civilization.