Did you know it was once illegal not to celebrate Bonfire Night?
Everybody knows the basics of the Gunpowder Plot which is behind ourGuy Fawkes, along with a small band of conspirators planned to blow up the Houses of Parliament as a protest against anti-Catholic laws in the country, a plan which failed.Facts you didn’t know about the Gunpowder plotHe was just one of a group of 13 men – the leader was one Robert Catesby.
2. November 5 was initially known as Gunpowder Treason Day and bonfires were lit as a celebration that the King hadn’t been killed.3. The tradition of burning an effigy of Guy Fawkes on a bonfire didn’t start until around the 18th century when reports appeared of kids carrying stuffed figures around and begging for money with them.4.
However, during the first and second World Wars, no one was allowed to set off fireworks or light bonfires. During this time, Bonfire Night was celebrated indoors to protect the people by not showing the enemy where they were.6. The conspirators were probably betrayed by a traitor – who wrote anonymously to one of the Lords warning him not to go into the House that day – therefore prompting the search in the cellars7.
Guy avoided this grisly fate by jumping off the gallows and breaking his own neck. However, they still chopped him up into quarters and sent his body off to the four corners of the kingdom as a warning to any other plotters. 8. Even today, the Yeoman of the Guard still check the cellars underneath the Houses of Parliament every year before the state opening of parliament.
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