Guy Fawkes' Lantern

A real piece of Gunpowder Plot history

This is the actual lantern which was in the hand of Guy Fawkes when he was apprehended beneath the Houses of Parliament - just moments before he was to light the fuse.

You can see it in the beautifully refurbished Ashmolean Museum in Oxford where it has appropriately been re-located to a basement exhibition gallery.

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