Every year on November 5, skies across England, Scotland and Wales are illuminated by fireworks as Brits head out into the night to enjoy Guy Fawkes Night celebrations. Also called Fireworks Night ...

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

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.

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 former school of gunpowder plotter Guy ... Bonfire Night, and over the years dolls made from old clothes and straw were burned on bonfires to represent the treason committed by Fawkes.

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 ...

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.

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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 ...

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 ...