The Guy Fawkes Inn sits on High Petergate, one of York's oldest Roman roads, occupying the building where England's most notorious conspirator was born in April 1570. The twist most visitors miss: Fawkes was raised a Protestant. It was only after his father died and his mother remarried a Catholic gentleman that his conversion began. He later sold his inherited lands, travelled to Spain to fight in the religious wars and became, along the way, an expert in explosives. The rest, as they say, is bonfire night.

VoiceMap's tours use the inn as the starting point for unravelling the real Gunpowder Plot. York's "Dark Journey" tour traces the Catholic persecution that drove Fawkes and his co-conspirators to act, while the "Haunted Pubs" crawl digs into the man behind the mask, from his Protestant childhood to the cellars of Westminster.