On 5 November every year, the effigy of Guy Fawkes is still burned on bonfires across England in recognition of his part in the failed 'Gunpowder Plot' of 1605. Fawkes didn't devise or lead the ...

The name's Guy Fawkes, friends call me Guido. I've been put here, in the Tower of London, because I may have been a little bit… naughty. You see, for a while now, Catholics like me have been ...

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 ...

Guy Fawkes, another of the conspirators ... But all it took was a note from the King to make it legal. So on 6 November, King James agreed that, "the gentler tortours are to be first used unto ...

Debate over who should rightfully sit on the English throne mingled political and religious concerns making it an uneasy transition for King James. Although Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot is ...