Every year on November 5, skies across England, Scotland and Wales are illuminated by fireworks as Brits head out into the night to enjoy Guy Fawkes Night celebrations.

Britain will set bonfires ablaze Thursday night in celebration of the so-called Gunpowder Plot anniversary, also known as Guy Fawkes Night. The tradition is part of a holiday celebrated every Nov ...

Scotland’s largest Bonfire Night celebration, Fawkes Festival, returns to the Royal Highland Centre in Ingliston on November ...

Mostly with bonfires and fireworks; the holiday is also known as Bonfire Night. Effigies are thrown on the fires — traditionally of Guy Fawkes, but sometimes of other unpopular people, such as ...

But more than 400 years later, the real-life revolutionary is still remembered today with "Bonfire Night," also known as Guy Fawkes Night (or Guy Fawkes Day) in the UK. Why?

Mostly with bonfires and fireworks; the holiday is also known as Bonfire Night. Effigies are thrown on the fires — traditionally of Guy Fawkes, but sometimes of other unpopular people, such as ...

The Misquamicut Players are gearing up for the 19th Annual Guy Fawkes Bonfire Night.Scheduled for Saturday, October 8th at 7 p.m., the show reenacts the events surrounding Guy Fawkes, the English ...

Someone made an effigy of Guy Fawkes and burned it Ever since the British have celebrated Guy Fawkes' Night. The celebration of "Bonfire" or "Guy Fawkes' Night" is well established in England.

In time, effigies of Fawkes replaced the pope. A photograph from 1955, depicting children at a school in Surrey, England, preparing the Guy Fawkes Night bonfire. - Hulton Archive/Getty Images ...

Britain will set bonfires ablaze Thursday night in celebration of the so-called Gunpowder Plot anniversary, also known as Guy Fawkes Night. The tradition is part of a holiday celebrated every Nov ...