1605, the Gunpowder plot, once arrested John Johnson gave his name and was taken to King James I of England’s bedchamber. When asked about the gunpowder, Johnson screamed that he needed the gunpowder to “blow [the] Scotch beggars back to [their] own native mountains”, after 4 days of torture Johnson admitted and named the co-conspirators of the plot, signing his name ‘Gudio Fawkes’.

Then on the 31st of January 1606 he and the other members of the plot were hanged, drawn and quartered in the Old Palace yard. This day became a thanksgiving for the British Empire. Marked the ‘joyful deliverance of King James I’, known today as Guy Fawkes Day, fireworks are set off across the country to celebrate the failed attempt to blow up the Houses of Parliament. Even though Guy Fawkes committed an act of treason, he was still named the 30th Greatest Briton in a BBC poll conducted in 2002.

Guy Fawkes has a strange story, and it makes sense that he has been remembered for many years throughout British history.