Originally an anti-Catholic celebration, Guy Fawkes Day, or “Bonfire Night,” is now celebrated as a holiday, with bonfires and fireworks lit nationwide. Fawkes himself can be seen year-round.

By anatomically dissecting each stage of this medieval punishment, we can understand the profound agony the gunpowder plot co-conspirators endured.

A seasonal brainteaser has emerged to tax our grey matter as we approach bonfire night. It asks people taking ... In the latest fiendishly difficult Guy Fawkes brainteaser, created by Selco ...

In Edinburgh, riots erupted, instigated by groups of youths who brutally disturbed the peace of residents. Masked hooligans ...

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.

The 2005 political thriller focuses on an anarchist freedom fighter called V, who wears a Guy Fawkes mask and plots to blow up the UK Parliament on Bonfire Night in protest of a neo-fascist regime.

Police are investigating after a flammable liquid was hurled at the Palace of Westminster on Guy Fawkes Night.A 41-year-old ...

The wonderful thing about Guy Fawkes/Bonfire/Fireworks Night was that it was a bit homemade and shonky. It also fills our primeval desire to sit around a fire during the darkest periods of the ...

Scotland is set to experience a mild but cloudy Guy Fawkes night on Tuesday with temperatures sticking at around 10 degrees throughout the day and evening across the country. Glasgow could even ...

A stunning 22ft Guy Fawkes face replica was the standout feature of an Oxfordshire bonfire night this weekend. The Wallingford 1155 Fireworks and Bonfire was held on Saturday, November 2 and saw a ...

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