Nov 3, 2025 · Guy Fawkes was an English conspirator in the 17th-century Gunpowder Plot, an unsuccessful plan to blow up Westminster Palace with King James I and Parliament inside. He …

Guy Fawkes (/ fɔːks /; 13 April 1570 – 31 January 1606), [a] also known as Guido Fawkes while fighting for the Spanish, was a member of a group of provincial English Catholics involved in …

Every 5 November in Britain on Guy Fawkes Day, we remember the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, when Guy Fawkes and fellow Catholic conspirators attempted to blow up Parliament and …

Nov 9, 2009 · Every November 5, the British celebrate Guy Fawkes Day by burning Fawkes in effigy. What became known as the Gunpowder Plot was organized by Robert Catesby, a …

Apr 29, 2021 · Rounded up and also tortured, the guilty parties, including Guy Fawkes, were executed by the gruesome method of being hanged, drawn, and quartered, a fate reserved for …

Timewatch presenter Alice Hogge introduces Guy Fawkes, the man most closely associated with the Gunpowder Plot. On 5 November every year, the effigy of Guy Fawkes is still burned on...

He became synonymous with the Gunpowder Plot, the failure of which has been commemorated in the UK as Guy Fawkes Night since 5 November 1605, when his effigy is traditionally burned …

Oct 28, 2025 · Remember remember the fifth of November, gunpowder, treason and plot - so the poem goes, but what was the true story behind the Gunpowder Plot, and who was Guy Fawkes?

A popular symbol of protest today, Guy Fawkes was first the face of treason because of his role in the murderous plot to blow up the British parliament in 1605. Tensions were high in England in...

On November 5, 1605, Guy Fawkes and a group of radical English Catholics tried to assassinate King James I by blowing up Parliament's House of Lords. The plot went awry and all of the...