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 ...

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Guy Fawkes seems as long and drawn-out as Christmas these days. The night sky is lit up with rockets and fancy fireworks long before the fifth, the date to “remember, remember” the ...

A lantern believed to have been carried by Guy Fawkes on the night he was arrested is on display at a museum. It can be seen ...

Law enforcement officials and emergency services are ready to act on unlawful incidents associated with Guy Fawkes Day on 5 ...

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Psst! Want to hear a Guy Fawkes story? Never heard of him? Listen my children and you shall hear of the midnight ride of Guy, 36 barrels of gun powder, and a pack of matches. Today’s column will rear ...

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.

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.

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 ...