Five minutes before midnight on 4th November 1605 a cloaked and spurred man, John Johnson of Nidderdale aka Guy Fawkes, unlocked a cellar door underneath the House of Lords. In his pockets were matches, a fuse and a timepiece ready to ignite 36 barrels of gunpowder hidden beneath firewood in the cellar.
This talk unravels the story of Guy Fawkes, his connections to Yorkshire, and how he became drawn into the Gunpowder Plot.
Why do we burn Guy Fawkes alone of all the 13 conspirators – is it because he was a Yorkshire man?
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