On 5 November every year, the effigy of Guy Fawkes is still burned on bonfires across England in recognition ... for the opening of parliament the next day. The foiling of the plot had been ...

Today the anniversary of this infamous plot is as close as England gets to an annual national ... By the Victorian era, the date had become known as Guy Fawkes Day. The anarchic activity seen ...

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 lightning fireworks and, in a morbid twist, burning an ...