To read further on England's tradition of Protestant holidays, see Cressy, David (1989), Bonfires and Bells: National Memory and the Protestant Calendar in Elizabethan and Stuart England, Berkeley: University of California Press, ISBN0-520-06940-4 . Cressy covers the same topic in Cressy, David (1994), "National Memory in Early Modern England", dalam John R. Gillis, Commemorations - The Politics of National Identity, Princeton: Princeton University Press, ISBN0-691-02925-3
For anecdotal evidence of the origins of Guy Fawkes Night as celebrated in the Bahamas in the 1950s, see Crowley, Daniel J. (July 1958), "158. Guy Fawkes Day at Fresh Creek, Andros Island, Bahamas", Man, Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, hosted at jstor.org, 58, m/s. 114–115
A short history of Guy Fawkes celebrations: Etherington, Jim (1993), Lewes Bonfire Night, Seaford: SB Publications, ISBN1-85770-050-3
For comments regarding the observance of the custom in the Caribbean, see Newall, Venetia (Spring 1975), "Black Britain: The Jamaicans and Their Folklore", Folklore, number 1, Taylor & Francis, Ltd. on behalf of Folklore Enterprises, Ltd, hosted at jstor.org, 86, m/s. 25–41
A study of the political and social changes which affected Guy Fawkes Night: Paz, D. G. (1990), "Bonfire Night in Mid Victorian Northamptonshire: the Politics of a Popular Revel", Historical Research, 63 (152): 316–328, doi:10.1111/j.1468-2281.1990.tb00892.x
