Bayeux Tapestry delivered to British Museum in dead of night. #BayeuxTapestry #BBCNews

Maybe this will inspire the BM to repatriate its stolen artifacts.

Under the cover of the night, it can become more 🇬🇧.👍

The Bayeux Tapestry is a staggering 70-meter (230-foot) long embroidered linen cloth that chronicles the Norman Conquest of England. Woven in the 11th century, its 58 scenes tell an epic medieval saga of broken oaths, soaring ambition, and the bloodiest battle in Anglo-Saxon history.The saga unfolds like a medieval comic, with a central storyline flanked by whimsical or thematic borders. It progresses through key episodes:The Oaths and the Betrayal (1064)The story begins in the court of England, where an aging, childless King Edward the Confessor instructs his brother-in-law, Harold Godwinson, to journey to Normandy. The mission is to offer the English succession to Edward’s cousin, William, Duke of Normandy.Harold's journey gets off to a treacherous start when he is blown off course, shipwrecked, and temporarily captured by the Count of Ponthieu. Duke William intervenes and rescues him. In gratitude, Harold travels with William on a military campaign and famously pledges a sacred oath of allegiance to William's claim on the English throne, swearing on holy relics.The Crown and the Comet (1066)Harold returns to England, but when King Edward dies in January 1066, Harold breaks his o

It’s always been in Reading 😂 (s)

What was the point of bringing up the amount of women in the historical piece about war.

That’s my history too! Had to find out I am a no the highest Tudor and therefore nearly killed by Prince Phillip. They are afraid to get pushed out of the Castle the Windsors! Should I do it?

I've never seen a more uneducated comment section.. apparently no one has ever heard of the battle of hastings or the norman conquest of ENGLAND.. something is seriously wrong with our education system, either that or they're foreigners with no grasp of English history

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Can you steal an artifact from yourself?

The Kentish tapestry! Keep it here

Since when does Alex greenwood work for the bbc

You mean the Reading Embroidery.

So many dumb comments about colonised artworks/artefacts. The Bayeux Tapestry depicts the beginning of the colonisation of England by the French.

"But only six women" They had to get that one in didnt they. The BBC are pathetic. 😂

This is a blast from the past. I remember studying this in History at school back in the 1980s.I hated History but something about this was fascinating even for a teen like me! ;)

"the story of what happened"... yes but only told from the position of the victors. The arrow to the eye for example is much disputed. A wonderful artifact regardless. I shall go to see it. Wonder what the British Museum had to give up in return for the loan.

500 years ago, this news would have taken months to reach America (the new world). 1000 years ago, news would have never reach this far. Today, the news of its arrival in England reached me in just a few hours. Crazy.

It's coming home

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