When is bonfire night 2018

The ticket-only event officially starts at 4. Gates open at 5. The Scottish celebration of Hogmanay sees locals swinging balls of fire over their head as they parade through the streets.

With food stalls, pre-show entertainment and a large bonfire, this event at Hopetoun House opens at 4pm. Spectators are welcome on to the Green from 5pm, where they can buy a range of food and drink, and browse merchandise stalls.

They can also enjoy a funfair! A full country-wide list of events is here. If you want to put on your own bonfire night at home there are some great fireworks deals on the high street. This tradition continues today, with effigies of Guy Fawkes made by local communities being burned. To find out where to watch fireworks in London, click here. Follow us on Twitter eslifeandstyle.

ES Money. The Escapist. The Reveller. Bonfire Night commemorates the events of , when a small group of Catholic plotters threatened to change the course of history. Led by charismatic religious fanatic Robert Catesby, with the help of radicalised ex-soldier Guido or Guy Fawkes, the would-be terrorists hatched a plan to blow up King James I along with the Prince of Wales and the Houses of Parliament.

Guy Fawkes was recruited by Catesby to take charge of the operation in the spring of and the plotters began digging a mine beneath parliament in the summer. Early the following year, they rented a coal cellar underneath the House of Lords and gradually moved 36 barrels of gunpowder into the chamber.

The plotters came unstuck just over a week before the State Opening of Parliament on 5 November, the date chosen for their mission. One of their number — thought by many to be Francis Tresham, who had expressed misgivings about the plot — cracked, and sent a letter of warning to the Catholic Lord Monteagle. Following the failed assassination attempt, people across London lit bonfires in celebration of King James I's life being spared.

Some months later the the Observance of 5th November Act, was brought into force as annual thanksgiving that the plotters were caught. For many Bonfire Night also symbolises the beginning of the winter season, a time when the temperature drops and Christmas preparations begin.

Often effigies are made and burnt to commemorate the day, but why? Why do we celebrate Bonfire Night?