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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.

Evening Standard

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The Guardian - UK

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

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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 Guardian - UK

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.

The Conversation

‘It’s the Bayeux tapestry of TV!’ After six decades, the seminal series bows out with 70 Up

The ‘hugely important artefact’ that’s followed 14 children since they were seven is set to air its final instalment. The now-septuagenarians and director Asif Kapadia talk about breaking new ground for 63 years – and changing TV for ever

The Guardian - UK

Top marks for the Bayeux tapestry

Brief letters: Rate that art | Panic buying | Rich pickings | JD Vance’s antichrist | Autumn’s arrival

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Feeling Bayeux tapestry Fomo? Check out these ancient artefacts instead

From iron age knitwear to stone circles, the UK has a wealth of alternatives if you missed out on British Museum tickets

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The Bayeux tapestry: a stupefying, thrilling, horrifying masterpiece that shakes the earth

The greatest battle ever depicted in art is here at last – and it hurtles along, making your heart pound with its sense of doom and destiny, culminating in fires and corpses on a battlefield full of pathos

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Bayeux tapestry loan symbolises ‘entente amicale’ between France and UK, says King Charles

Monarch tells Emmanuel Macron at the British Museum in London that the two nations will share a future ‘woven together’ by history and shared values

The Guardian - UK

Macron to be first EU leader to meet Andy Burnham during London trip for Bayeux Tapestry exhibition

French President Emmanuel Macron will head to the Netherlands on Wednesday, before beginning his two-day trip to the UK.

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Bayeux tapestry: Matilda of Flanders – the woman who was instrumental to William the Conqueror’s success

Just three women appear in the main body of the Bayeux tapestry: Edith of Wessex, shown grieving at the deathbed of her husband Edward the Confessor; the mysterious and much-debated shrouded figure named Ælfgyva; and a woman fleeing a burning building with her child. Missing from the tapestry is the…

The Conversation

Monet’s Riviera, 90s nostalgia and Bayeux à gogo! The best art and architecture of autumn 2026

A self-confident woman strides on to the Fourth Plinth, Nan Goldin captures sex, cats and death and even the Turner Prize shows promise this year

The Guardian - UK

Missed out on tickets to see the Bayeux tapestry in London? A £1,000 hotel stay will get you in

British Museum’s £33 tickets to exhibition sold out in a day but some slots have been reserved for guests at One Aldwych

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A new entente? Bayeux tapestry’s UK arrival ‘closes loop’ on Brexit tensions

Culture secretary Lisa Nandy is among first viewers as epic embroidery is unpacked at British Museum, a landmark in Anglo-French diplomacy

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Forget the lions: five fun things to do or see to take your mind off the football

From cheetah cubs to uplifting sport to come, put England’s World Cup exit behind you with these suggestions

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Is 5ft 9in Arthur Fery really ‘diminutive’?

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It’s time for Nigel Farage to seek forgiveness

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Bayeux tapestry crosses Channel in dead of night for historic UK exhibition

Cloak-and-dagger operation delivers 70-metre medieval artwork to British Museum, as gathered diplomats applaud

Radio France Internationale

Secrecy surrounds Bayeux Tapestry's imminent Channel crossing

Under cover of darkness and heavy police guard, the Bayeux Tapestry – a 68-metre embroidered chronicle of the Norman conquest of England, stitched in wool not long after the events it depicts – is set to cross the Channel within days, the official overseeing its move to London has revealed.

The Guardian - UK

A richly woven tapestry of Britain’s medieval heritage

Letters: Readers respond to an article by Jonathan Jones on great medieval art apart from the Bayeux tapestry

The Conversation

The Bayeux tapestry and the hidden history of the women who embroidered it

For the first time in nearly 1,000 years, the Bayeux tapestry is returning to Britain. The 70-metre embroidery will be displayed at the British Museum from September. The tapestry depicts the Norman Conquest of 1066 and the battle of Hastings. In comic-strip form, it tells the story of Harold II…

The Guardian - UK

Bayeux tapestry tickets generate nine-hour online queues as public scramble for access

Reports say up to 80,000 people waiting by mid-afternoon for chance to see historic artwork at British Museum

The Guardian - UK

‘The landscape offers the same russet and ochre hues as the Bayeux tapestry’: walking the 1066 trail in East Sussex

With the British Museum’s blockbuster Bayeux tapestry exhibition opening soon, we follow in the footsteps of William the Conqueror and King Harold’s armies around Battle and Rye

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From Celtic culture to Norman wisdom, the English should delight in their hybridity

Letters: The origins of the English nation long preceded the Anglo-Saxons, says Rev Dr Richard Cleaves. Plus a letter from George Nicholson

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