Guy Fawke’s Night

A few weeks ago I posted about British peculiarities. Well, speaking of peculiar, the fifth of November is celebrated in the UK as the day when over 400 years ago an attempt to blow up the houses of parliament was narrowly averted and the perpetrators brought to bloody justice. Every year fireworks are set off to represent the explosions that didn’t happen, and effigies of the most famous of the conspirators, Guy Fawkes, are burned on bonfires to represent an ending for him which very much did happen, although in a different (and very nasty!) way. Click on the image below to learn more about the story behind this very British and quite peculiar celebration

Ed Taylor (Heads of Studies at King’s Training)