I see no reason why gunpowder treason should ever be forgot.” Ask anyone in the U.K. about Guy Fawkes, and they'll most likely quote you this poem. The fifth of November is a day when we remember one ...

By the Victorian era, the date had become known as Guy Fawkes Day. The anarchic activity seen before was now frowned upon. Local worthies clamped down on the worst excesses, magistrates issued ...

Guy Fawkes was born in April 1570 in York ... the king would have been sitting for the opening of parliament the next day. The foiling of the plot had been expertly engineered by James I's ...

"They then made it an annual day of rejoicing and building the bonfires ... usually the Pope who was burnt as an effigy and not Guy Fawkes. "Burning a guy as an effigy really started around ...

1. Guy Fawkes Night, November 5 – United Kingdom What occasion is more worth celebrating than the day when a plot to blow up the parliament building failed? Every year on November 5, Brits ...

Today is Guy Fawkes Day, a day where the U.K. celebrates the foiling of a plot to kill King James I in 1605. The country celebrates this by lighting fireworks and, in a morbid twist, burning an ...

Crowds of people lined the streets of Lewes as the town’s bonfire societies marched with burning torches for Guy Fawkes Night. Tens of thousands of people were expected to turn out for the ...