In one of the display cabinets of Oxford University’s Ashmolean Museum sits a rather unremarkable and shabby-looking iron lantern, however, this 16th-century lamp once belonged to one of the most infamous and colorful characters of British history, the conspirator and terrorist Guy Fawkes. The gunpowder plot is one of the most notorious events in English history and is commemorated every year on the night of the 5th of November, also known as Guy Fawkes Night, with fireworks (somewhat ironically) and often the burning on a pyre of an effigy known…
