Fawkes - the most infamous conspirator behind a plot to blow up Parliament and kill King James I in 1605 - was born in York ...

A Cartoonist At The Guido Fawkes Twentieth Anniversary Party with Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, James Cleverly, Nigel Farage and ...

Edinburgh Zoo staff have slammed the widespread use of fireworks in the city after Guy Fawkes Night explosions literally ...

Guy Fawkes Day is known in South Africa as the day when people cross-dress for fun, but it actually originates from a ...

Half the plotters were killed in a shoot-out. The rest, including Guy Fawkes, were tried for treason. The captured plotters were found guilty and executed in January 1606. In the same month ...

Guy Fawkes seems as long and drawn-out as Christmas these days. The night sky is lit up with rockets and fancy fireworks long before the fifth, the date to “remember, remember” the ...

It is believed Guy Fawkes planned to use the lantern's candle to light the fuse as part of his gunpowder plot A lantern believed to have been carried by Guy Fawkes on the night he was arrested is ...

On 5 November every year, the effigy of Guy Fawkes is still burned on bonfires across England in recognition of his part in the failed 'Gunpowder Plot' of 1605. Fawkes didn't devise or lead the ...

Bitcoin enables a digital Gunpowder Plot, giving anyone the ability to opt out of establishment control as Guy Fawkes once attempted. Bitcoin enables a digital Gunpowder Plot, giving anyone the ...

COMMENT: Thanks to the increasing cost of putting on a public display, November 5 is fast becoming ‘No-Fireworks Night’ – but ...

The plot is commemorated every autumn with the burning of an effigy of Guy Fawkes, its mastermind, an oddly pagan act of gloating sanitised by the addition of fireworks, sparklers and toffee apples.

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