The fifth of November is Britain’s Guy Fawkes Day—a national holiday that memorializes a revolutionary group’s plot to blow up Parliament and bring down the government. But who was Guy Fawkes? And why is there a day in his honor? Let’s explore.
The fifth of November is Britain’s Guy Fawkes Day—a national holiday that memorializes a revolutionary group’s plot to blow up Parliament and bring down the government. But who was Guy Fawkes? And why is there a day in his honor? Let’s explore.