Guy Fawkes

Who was Guy Fawkes, the conspirator most closely associated with the Gunpowder Plot of 1605? Find out more from our articles below…

Guy Fawkes and the men behind the gunpowder plot. Guy Fawkes, best known of the conspirators, is third from the right. (Print Collector/Getty Images)

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The arrest of Guy Fawkes. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

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Guy Fawkes was a conspirator in the gunpowder plot to destroy the Houses of Parliament, c1606. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Fireworks on Guy Fawkes Day c1800

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An illustration of the Gunpowder Plot principal conspirators, copied from a rare print published at the time (5 November 1605). (Photo by Fototeca Gilardi/Getty Images).

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The Monteagle letter, which shares a warning about the Gunpowder Plot. (National Archives)

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Gunpowder plotters. (Getty Images)

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Picture depicting the arrest of Guy Fawkes

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Banqueting House, London, where Charles I was executed on 30 January 1649. (Photo by Angelo Hornak/Corbis via Getty Images)

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