On Friday, I enjoyed a lovely steak and ale pie at the gastropub Snug and Chatter in Wetherby, paying £19.90, which compares with £18.90 for the Knapton Lion’s own steak and mushroom pie. The Knapton ...

After five years under the Nazi jackboot, the Channel Islands were finally liberated on May 9, 1945. But Hitler's 'model occupation' was hardly bloodless ...

TODAY, we use the word "guy" as a casual pronoun, but its origin is widely believed to come from Guy Fawkes, the mastermind behind the failed Gunpowder Plot. Credit: Wikimedia Commons Does the ...

Many of us growing up in Manchester will remember witnessing some spectacular ... Manchester will have fond childhood memories of Guy Fawkes' night. Be it the dazzling fireworks displays, cosying ...

Every 5 November we remember the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 ... The plot is commemorated every autumn with the burning of an effigy of Guy Fawkes, its mastermind, an oddly pagan act of gloating ...

V for Vendetta is a dystopian action movie that uses Guy ... begins: “Remember, remember, the fifth of November, Gunpowder Treason and Plot.” Needless to say, this is the obvious day for ...

Remember, remember the Fifth of November ... to commemorate the anniversary of a failed attempt by Catholics led by Guy Fawkes to blow up the House of Lords during the State opening of Parliament ...

By the way, 5 November is “Guy Fawkes Night” – the celebration ... carry torches are still held on that day in the United Kingdom. "Remember, remember, the 5th of November," children are ...

Most people here in the U.S. have no reason to remember November 5, except this year because it is Election Day. In the U.K., however, it is Guy Fawkes Day — a day every year of bonfires and fireworks ...

Still, many Victorians fondly remember the colour and spectacle of the night. The Guy Fawkes tradition effectively died when the state government outlawed all fireworks sales in 1982.

In time, effigies of Fawkes replaced the pope. Sharpe, author of “Remember, Remember: A Cultural History of Guy Fawkes Day,” suggests that the act of law, which stipulated a thanksgiving church ...