LONDON — It is said that history is written by the winners, but sometimes the losers aren’t forgotten.

Sunday is Guy Fawkes Night in England, an annual celebration on Nov. 5 named after a participant in a failed plot in 1605 to kill King James I.

The Gunpowder Plot, as it was known, was organized by a group of Catholics who wanted to kill and replace the Protestant king and his ministers by blowing up the House of Lords during the State Opening of Parliament.

Led by Robert Catesby, the small group of plotters — including Fawkes — met for the first time in 1604 at an inn in London called the Duck and Drake.