EPISODE · Jul 31, 2026 · 24 MIN

Norwich’s ‘Great Blow’ of 1648

from The World Turned Upside Down - The British Civil Wars 1638-1651 · host The World Turned Upside Down

On 24 April 1648 a rioting crowd in the centre of the city of Norwich accidentally unleashed the largest explosion recorded in seventeenth-century England. Ninety-eight barrels of gunpowder were detonated; about three times as much as was hidden in cellars under Parliament by the notorious Gunpowder Plotters of 1605. Norwich magistrates’ subsequent investigation made the ... Read more

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