This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). ‘Remember, remember, the fifth of November’, goes the old nursery rhyme, ‘gunpowder, treason and plot.’ It’s a memorably succinct ...

Lancaster University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. Around 2,000 people visit A&E every year due to injuries caused by fireworks. Although fireworks are an essential ...

‘Remember, remember, the fifth of November’, goes the old nursery rhyme, ‘gunpowder, treason and plot.’ It’s a memorably succinct summary of the events of that very night in 1605, when Catholic rebel ...