On the 5th November 1605, a terrorist cell of desperate men tried to blow up the Houses of Parliament, but what drove these men to the extreme and why is their mural on the London tube?

On 4 November 1605, Cecil ordered searches of the whole of the Houses of Parliament, and Fawkes was arrested. He was found dressed for a swift exit with spurs on his boots. Fawkes endured two days ...

The video traces the origins of the occasion back to the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 and the unsuccessful attempt of Guy Fawkes and other plotters to blow up the Houses of Parliament. The video also ...

This tradition dates back to the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 when Guy Fawkes, a Catholic, attempted to blow up Parliament and the monarch at the time, King James I, a Protestant. As a symbolic gesture ...

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