The Catholic conspirator jumped or fell from the gallows on this day in 1606, breaking his neck before the executioner could ...

Guy Fawkes was born in April 1570 in York ... breaking his own neck and thereby avoiding the horror of being cut down while still alive, having his testicles cut off and his stomach opened ...

Here it is. These are the gunpowder plotters, the infamous Guy Fawkes and his fellow conspirators who, on the 5th of November 1605, tried to blow up a packed parliament in the name of their ...

The name's Guy Fawkes, friends call me Guido. I've been put here, in the Tower of London, because I may have been a little bit… naughty. You see, for a while now, Catholics like me have been ...

Guy Fawkes was born in 1570 and though his father was a staunch Protestant, his mother married for a second time into a strongly Catholic family. He went to St Peter's School at York - like the Wright ...