The Bayeux Tapestry should be renamed the 'Canterbury Embroidery' because it was almost certainly made in Britain and isn't technically a tapestry, a historian has said. Dr David Musgrove said the 230 ...

A new theory proposes that the Bayeux Tapestry was designed to deliver moral messages to medieval monks over dinner ...

New research by an historian from the University of Bristol offers an intriguing suggestion about one of history’s biggest ...

In 2021, the headmaster of Dover College, a private school on the English south coast, began boasting in promotional ...

Debate is raging amongst historians over the number of penises included on the Bayeux Tapestry. The original embroidery is still kept in Bayeux, France, and depicts the Norman conquest of England, but ...

For almost a thousand years, the Bayeux Tapestry has told the story of how a French duke defeated an English king in battle – and changed the course of European history. Now, as France prepares to ...

The Bayeux tapestry is not only a pictorial history of the Norman invasion of England — it's also a 900-year-old work of art. Its unique stitch had fallen out of use over the centuries, but now a ...

Often referred to as the world’s most famous medieval artwork, the Bayeux Tapestry is both an intricate illustration of the events leading up to the Norman conquest of England in 1066 and a historical ...