The story of how Guy Fawkes was found in the cellars underneath Parliament with barrels of gunpowder, ready to blow the whole thing to smithereens, is told to every British school child.
But what if the charges of a gunpowder plot thought up by dissident Catholics in 1605 are at best trumped up, and at worst fabricated by the highest echelons of society?
That is what two historians — including a former Oxford professor — have argued in both writing and their popular podcast.
