Wander through the cobbled streets of Lewes in East Sussex ... martyrs who were burnt at the stake in the town during the 16th century. Six different bonfire societies take part in the procession ...
Lewes Priory Trust called the manuscript ‘a compendium of knowledge about the 16th century Renaissance world and its thinking’, saying it looks at issues including military engineering ...
These hark back to the 17 Protestant martyrs who were burnt in Lewes during the reign of Bloody Mary, half a century before Guy Fawkes attempted to blow up the Houses of Parliament. Lewes Bonfire ...