Public domain via Wikimedia Commons As Guy ... doing, Fawkes admitted to wanting to blow up the king, venting his regret at having failed. His captors imprisoned him at the Tower of London ...
I love bonfire night. He doesn’t. Poor guy. That’s his name ... Rat: The guards took Guy Fawkes to a dungeon in the Tower of London. Guard: Oooooh ‘eck. Sorry fella, but the king told ...
The 'Gunpowder Plot' was foiled at the eleventh hour, an event still celebrated annually on 5 November and named for the most famous of the conspirators - Guy Fawkes Night. But who was Guy Fawkes ...
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?
London is a city people think they know before they arrive. They come for the skyline, where glass towers stand shoulder to ...
Pieter Brueghel the Elder’s masterpiece captures the folly of humanity’s desire to reach heaven on its own terms.
Social media is full of house tour videos, yet none quite capture the intrigue like Tom Houghton's former abode – the Tower of London. The comedian took to TikTok to explain his recent unusual ...
That spot - opposite the street of St Michael Le Belfrey where Fawkes was baptised - is now the Guy Fawkes Inn. The historical building includes a pub, restaurant, and hotel and has given birth to ...
Smitten with England before she became a regular visitor, the actress, who returns as Belinda in Season 3, tells us why ...
Amy Lamé has launched a "global consultancy" firm called 24hr Cities. The former London night czar stepped down from her position at the end of October, following controversy over the decline of ...
Over the years, shifting ground conditions and the construction of London’s Jubilee Line beneath the building have caused the tower to develop a 0.26-degree tilt. That may not seem like much ...