Monthly Prompt: November

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The prompt for this month is:


Fireworks


Feel free to interpret that metaphorically or literally.

As you probably already know, in Britain we celebrate Bonfire Night on 5th November. It commemorates the Houses of Parliament not getting blown up in 1605. The 5th is also known as Firework Night, Guy Fawkes Day and Guy Fawkes Night—Guy Fawkes being one of the Gunpowder Plot’s conspirators. If you wish, you can learn more about the history of the celebrations here on Wikipedia.

Bonfire Night has naturally altered over the centuries, and so this article on The Victorianist blog might be of interest too. It covers descriptions from The Times of Bonfire Night in 1886, 1887 and 1888.


I would just like to mention the October Activity here as well. There were some wonderfully imaginative contributions and my co-mod and I would like to thank everyone who took part. In particular we’d like to gratefully acknowledge saki101’s enthusiasm and excellent additions to the general insanity.


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