History Series: Guy Fawkes
History of Guy Fawkes Night
How Gunpowder Mixed with Parliament
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4 min readNov 4, 2023
For my friends across the Pond.
November 5th is known as “Bonfire Night” or “Guy Fawkes Night.” All over Britain, people shoot off fireworks, light bonfires, and burn effigies of Guy Fawkes. Guido Fawkes was an Englishman who, in popular legend, tried to blow up…