Back with a bang

After many cancellations in 2020, Bonfire Night celebrations are back for 2021. Wrapping up warm to enjoy displays like this one, in the historic Norfolk town of King’s Lynn, is an annual British tradition. But fireworks displays here didn’t start with the Gunpowder Plot. The first recorded one in England predated it by more than a century, at the wedding day of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York in 1486. They really took off in popularity under Elizabeth I.
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