Every year on November 5th many recognize Guy Fawkes Day. There's no better time than any to freshen up on this modern legacy — and its connection to Alan Moore’s graphic novel and 2005 ...

One goes: Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, 'twas his intent To blow up the King and the Parliament Three score barrels of powder below Poor old England to overthrow By God's providence he was catch'd With ...

There was the cultural impact, with Nov. 5 celebrated ever since with fires and fireworks as Bonfire Night or, in tribute to the plotter caught red-handed, as Guy Fawkes Night. There is a ...

London – "Remember, remember, the fifth of November." The 400-year-old story of Guy Fawkes and other plotters' failure to blow up London's Parliament is traditionally marked in Britain with this ...

Guy Fawkes, along with a small band of conspirators planned to blow up the Houses of Parliament as a protest against anti-Catholic laws in the country, a plan which failed. But how many more of ...

Guy Fawkes was sentenced to death for his role in the Gunpowder Plot, a conspiracy to kill James I of England, members of the royal family and government officials. Public domain via Wikimedia ...

The BBC is not responsible for the content of external websites. Guy Fawkes' effigy is burned on bonfires across the country in November; the man behind the myth was the only son of Protestant ...

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.

Robert Catesby, a young Roman Catholic gentleman, and not Guy Fawkes was the actual leader of the Gunpowder Plot Guy Fawkes' job was "simply" to remain in the cellar of the Houses of Parliament ...