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 ...

Half the plotters were killed in a shoot-out. The rest, including Guy Fawkes, were tried for treason. The captured plotters were found guilty and executed in January 1606. In the same month ...

Etching of Guy Fawkes and conspirator executions in Old Palace Yard by Claes Jansz Visscher, 1606. Source: National Portrait Gallery, London An Elizabethan drinking tavern.