This interactive article looks at why we light Guy Fawkes effigies on bonfires on 5 November. Plus how Gunpowder Treason Day became fireworks night over 400 years. Aimed at 11-16 year-olds.

An estimated 40,000 people attended the annual bonfire event in Lewes to mark Guy Fawkes Night. The different bonfire societies marched with huge effigies and holding burning torches along the ...

Burning effigies of Guy Fawkes called ‘guys’, which are often made out of paper, wood, or old clothes stuffed with straw. And reciting a famous rhyme: Remember, remember, the fifth of November ...

The parade, which the East Sussex town is famous for, was led by a cart containing a figure of Guy Fawkes and giant burning effigies, followed by the crowd, who were carrying flaming fire devil ...