The latest addition to the History of York website is very seasonal – a page about Guy Fawkes and his York connections.
I knew that Fawkes was born in the city but I hadn’t realised before that he was one of three Gunpowder Plotters to have grown up here. Two of his pals from school, the brothers John and Kit Wright, were also deeply involved and ended up losing their lives because of the plot. It seems that York harboured a resistance community that was willing to kill and die for their religious cause.
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