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Raccoons at the ready! 20 Halloween costumes for 2026 – from Erling Haaland to Kate in Widow’s Bay

Do you want to channel a cult horror film, steamy ice hockey show, disgraced political operative, or one of the stand-out stars of the Bayeux tapestry? Here’s how to do it

The Guardian - UK · 6h ago

AI book prize judges face a major speed-reading challenge

Brief letters: Prix Pascal de Littérature IA | Dickensian solicitors | Cleobury Mortimer | Great Tapestry of Scotland | From Bayeux to Britain

The Guardian - UK · Oct 26

Bayeux tapestry becomes pop culture hit as young people more keen to see exhibition than top films

Monzo says 55% of its payments to British Museum in first hour of latest ticket release were by people under 35

The Guardian - UK · Oct 26

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Storm names should tell a story or two

Brief letters: Storm Austen | Interpreting Hokusai | NI for pensioners | Creative car names | Queue for the Bayeux

The Guardian - UK · Oct 22

Residents of ‘1066 Country’ lose battle for Bayeux tapestry tickets

Exclusive: East Sussex MP Helena Dollimore says ‘shambolic’ museum phone line has made her constituents lose out to ‘queue jumpers’

The Guardian - UK · Oct 21

‘Terror of kings’: why the 1066 appearance of Halley’s comet terrified the medieval world

A sequence on the Bayeux tapestry shows King Harold alongside a crowd gazing at the sky, beneath the embroidered caption Isti mirant stella (“those people marvel at the star”). Above Harold sits Halley’s comet, with ghost-like invasion boats in the border below – a Norman framing of Harold as a…

The Conversation · Oct 20

‘What could be discovered? What is new there?’: blockbuster exhibition celebrates Roy Lichtenstein

The often-criticised pop artist is the focus of a monumental new survey including rarely seen pieces and ambitious new restagings at New York’s Whitney Museum

The Guardian - US · Oct 11

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Bayeux Tapestry tickets 'chaos' as thousands stuck in online queue for hours

Tickets sell out after hopeful buyers report waiting three hours in online queue

Evening Standard · Oct 6

Mary Beard suggests ‘tweaks’ to British Museum’s handling of queues to see Bayeux tapestry

Classicist and museum trustee visited the line after people complained of waiting for hours, with some turned away

The Guardian - UK · Oct 5

From the Bayeux tapestry to Glastonbury: top tips and tricks to grab the hottest tickets

Nothing is guaranteed but there are ways to boost your chances of experiencing such in-demand events

The Guardian - UK · Oct 3

Should we refuse to give the Bayeux tapestry back to France? Of course not! So why are we keeping the Parthenon marbles?

It is simply wrong for the British Museum to hoard what doesn’t belong to Britain. Let the squabbling end and the sculptures be returned to Greece, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

The Guardian - UK · Oct 2

Do the British Museum’s links with Palantir and BP bring it into disrepute?

Letter: Dr Chris Garrard responds to an article about George Osborne assuming that Palantir founder Peter Thiel’s visit to view the Bayeux tapestry would remain secret

The Guardian - UK · Sep 28

From bling and birds to ‘really fancy armour’ – the best dressed characters of the Bayeux tapestry

Medieval experts talk us through the fashion of the near-1,000-year-old embroidered work, and what it says about the characters wearing it

The Guardian - UK · Sep 25

Talks over returning Elgin Marbles to Greece ‘collapse’

Greece’s prime minister said country would not accept ‘any arrangement that would require it to recognise the British Museum’s ownership of the sculptures’

The Independent UK · Sep 24

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The Guardian - UK · Sep 24

Greek PM: deal to return Parthenon marbles could still be reached with ‘political will and courage’

But Kyriakos Mitsotakis says he cannot accept any arrangement that recognises British Museum’s ownership of the sculptures

The Guardian - UK · Sep 19

George Osborne ‘thought Peter Thiel’s Bayeux tapestry visit would be secret’

British Museum chair tells Big Brue festival he thought no one would find out about the private viewing

The Conversation · Sep 18

The Bayeux tapestry: how this medieval wonder was reinvented for modern times

The Bayeux tapestry is back after a thousand years. Made in England at the end of the 11th century, the 70-metre masterpiece has returned for the first time in a blockbuster exhibition at the British Museum.

The Guardian - UK · Sep 14

TV tonight: inside the Bayeux Tapestry’s ‘treacherous’ journey to London

Michael Palin tells the story of the artwork that has caused such a stir – and nightmares! Plus, a juicy drama based on Graham Norton’s novel. Here’s what to watch this evening

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The Guardian - UK · Sep 13

Stitching our warped reality together: a cartoonist and art critic take different approaches to the Bayeux tapestry

One Guardian contributor was tasked with creating a modern-day version of the medieval masterpiece, the other with reviewing the original. Both their visions proved terrifyingly pertinent. Here’s how they both tackled it

The Guardian - UK · Sep 11

Lübeck’s sweetest treat deserves a visit

Brief letters: Café Niederegger | Reading’s Bayeux tapestry | Trump’s renaming spree | The Amerigo Round

Evening Standard · Sep 10

Crowds flock to museum as Bayeux Tapestry goes on display

Special conservation and security measures are in place to ensure the safety of the tapestry.

The Guardian - UK · Sep 10

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The Guardian - UK · Sep 10

Thursday briefing: 68 facts about the Bayeux tapestry as it goes on display

In today’s newsletter: No Bayeux ticket? Everything you need to know about the sold-out exhibition – from its epic journey to London to a Game of Thrones likeness

The Guardian - UK · Sep 9

The Bayeux tapestry: why more women should be stitched into the fabric of history

Letters: Readers respond to the loan of the Bayeux tapestry

The Conversation · Sep 8

The Bayeux tapestry is really an embroidered comic strip

The Bayeux tapestry is many things: a public statement, a massive work of collaborative art, a staple of the teaching of British history. The 70-metre-embroidered cloth depicts the events of the Norman conquest, culminating in the 1066 Battle of Hastings and the death of Harold II.

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