{"id":25616,"date":"2023-06-02T08:36:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T06:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=232587"},"modified":"2023-06-02T09:11:36","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T07:11:36","slug":"plot-or-paranoia-the-amboyna-conspiracy-trial","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/plot-or-paranoia-the-amboyna-conspiracy-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Plot or paranoia? The Amboyna conspiracy trial"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adam Clulow explores how fears of a sprawling conspiracy took hold in a remote Dutch East India Company fort in 1623 \u2013 with deadly consequences <\/p>

By Ellie Cawthorne\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Friday, 02 June 2023 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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In 1623, at a Dutch fort on the remote island of Ambon, in modern-day Indonesia, a young Japanese mercenary was arrested for asking suspicious questions \u2013 and interrogated using torture. Within just 15 days, 21 people were dead, and two nations were set at odds. Historian Adam Clulow (one of the winners of this year\u2019s Dan David Prize for outstanding historical scholarship) joins Ellie Cawthorne to explore the story of the Amboyna conspiracy trial \u2013 and investigate why events escalated so quickly.<\/p>\n\n

Adam Clulow is the author of Amboina, 1623: Fear and Conspiracy on the Edge of Empire<\/em> (Columbia University Press, 2019)<\/strong><\/p>\n