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 ...

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 ...

A pub could be opened on the site of the former home of gunpowder plotter Guy Fawkes. The Fawkes and the Tiger bar on Stonegate in York would be located where his parents lived at the time of his ...