Guy Fawkes Night's Bonfire at Ushaw College

Guy Fawkes Night - 2008

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November 1st 2008
Each year the students at Ushaw College (Seminarians) enjoy celebrating Guy Fawkes Night with the mandatory bonfire and fireworks. Brendan reminded me that Guy Fawkes was a member of a group of English Catholic revolutionaries who planned to carry out the Gunpowder Plot on 5th November, 1605. The Plot aimed to kill King James I of England, his family and most of the aristocracy by blowing up th ... read more

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Great Britain, the dominant industrial and maritime power of the 19th century, played a leading role in developing parliamentary democracy and in advancing literature and science. At its zenith, the British Empire stretched over one-fourth of the ear... ... read more