Guy Fawkes was discovered and arrested in the early hours of 5 November 1605 in a chamber under the House of Lords. He was surrounded by 36 barrels of gunpowder and had the fuses to detonate them ...

Three short animations exploring The Gunpowder Plot of 1605 - why it happened, the main events of the Plot, and the consequences for Guy Fawkes and the other plotters. This set of three songs ...

But while Guy Fawkes, whose real name was Guido, was the man caught underneath the House of Lords with barrels of gunpowder and matches he was NOT the plotter behind the murderous scheme to blow ...

Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later ... every autumn with the burning of an effigy of Guy Fawkes, its mastermind, an oddly pagan act of gloating ...

On November 5, 1605, revolutionary Guy Fawkes was caught guarding a stash of gunpowder that was to be used to blow up the Houses of Parliament in London, England. Fawkes and his co-conspirators ...