Guy Fawkes night and Bonfire Night 2024: Story of Guy Fawkes and Gunpowder Plot explained - why do we celebrate on 5 November?

National World UK ^ | November 05, 2024 | Tom Morton - Editor

[Red Badger]

https://x.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1853888267319488761

[NorthMountain]

Who was Guy Fawkes?

My hero: the only man ever to enter Parliament with honest intentions.

[cowboyusa]

V

[rktman]

BOOM!💣

[bigbob]

Celebrating the failure of a plot may end up just reminding others how to do the same thing but without getting caught.

[cowboyusa]

V for Vendetta was so on point. They thought the Right would be the evil ones, but the ant- Totolitarian message remains.

[Campion]

The plan was to install King James’ daughter Elizabeth on the throne

As fate would have it, all of the current British royal family are descended from princess Elizabeth. Her grandson was George I, the first of the Hanoverians.

[Bratch]

[mewzilla]

The UK has a Deep State, too. And it doesn't like people celebrating national holidays...

Urgent warning issued to Brits for Bonfire night or risk being fined £90 tonight Disobeying the rules could even lead to imprisonment.

Note who gets tossed in the slammer over there.

[mewzilla]

Oh, good gad...

Fireworks banned in UK area 10 days after Bonfire Night in new law It makes it an offence even to light a firework in one area of Britain.

[telescope115]

“Remember remember the 5th of November”….

The movie “V” was good, kind of like “1984”, but with a positive ending, and then there’s Gunpowder, on HBOMAX, for a period dramatization of the gunpowder plot. For me, both are entertaining.

[Empire_of_Liberty]

I often wonder about that - if viewers and producers can see through the fictionalized protagonists and antagonists in the movies they watch and produce.

Perhaps “V for Vendetta” can only be made with the P and A they fictionalize, but I have no problem in seeing the totalitarian Left in the double-cross antagonists of the movie.

[telescope115]

Great movie!

[cowboyusa]

Especially Covid.

[BenLurkin]

IIRC, he Fawked up.

[telescope115]

It never entered my mind that THIS Election Day is on the anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot.

Robert Catesby had a quicker, more merciful end than Guy Fawkes did…

Trivia: Kit Harington is a direct descendant of Robert Catesby on his mother's side. Harington's full birth name is Christopher Catesby Harington.

Harington also was Jon Snow in Game of Thrones

[Red Badger]

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[Verginius Rufus]

The Presidential election fell on Nov. 5 in 1816, 1844, 1872, 1912, 1940, 1968 and 1996. It won't be on Nov. 5 again until 2052.

I read somewhere the theory that the whole Gunpowder Plot was a fake (like Jan. 6) and the participants who got punished for their role were just dupes. Not sure if any serious historians of that period buy that theory.

In colonial New England, November 5 was celebrated every year to express their hatred of the Catholic Church.

Our commonly-used word "guy" comes from Guy Fawkes' name.

[telescope115]

Thanks for the info! 👍🙂