Following the Gunpowder Plot in 1605, Parliament decreed November 5 a day of thanksgiving, which came to be known as Guy Fawkes Night. In the 1600s, Fawkes became a stand-in for the Catholic ...

We all remember the failed plan to blow up the Houses of Parliament. Each year we let off fireworks and burn York's most infamous son, Guy Fawkes, on the bonfire. But how much do you know about ...

As Guy Fawkes walked to the gallows on January 31, 1606, doomed to execution for his part in an unsuccessful attempt to blow up London’s Houses of Parliament, no one knew just what was going ...

The Guy Fawkes mask has become a common site at protests and rallies – this one was in February of this year in Berlin. Image: urbanartcore.eu For most Americans, the 5th of November was just ...

An interactive article looking at why we light Guy Fawkes effigies on bonfires on November 5th. Plus how Gunpowder Treason Day became fireworks night over 400 years.

Little-known fact — well, it’s probably a fact: “Guy” meaning “fellow” (these days, sometimes even including gals), stems from Guy Fawkes, of English Gunpowder Plot (Nov. 5, 1605) fame ...

Guy Fawkes' signature, right, was barely legible on a confession soon after he was believed to have been tortured. His signature, which he signed as Guido Fawkes, was much clearer on a separate ...

Instead of a bang and a pop, Guy Fawkes could go down in a fizzle and a whimper as unsettled weather looks to dampen the firework spirit. Guy Fawkes is officially on November 5, which falls on a ...

After their infamous plot to destroy parliament was foiled, Guy Fawkes and his co-conspirators received one of the most severe judicial sentences in English history: hanging, drawing and quartering.