Conspiracies: theory and practice

Conspiracy theories often provide convenient explanations for complex or random events to fit and sustain the particular prejudices of their believers. But in this edition of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black talks to The Critic's political editor, Graham Stewart, about the many conspiracies and secretive plots that really did shape the course of events.

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Image: Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plotters, 1605. From print published Frankfurt 1605. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Music: Radetzky March by Human Symphony Orchestra (premiumbeat.com)

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