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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

The Guardian - UK

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

The Guardian - UK

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

The Guardian - UK

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.

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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 Guardian - UK

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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 Conversation

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

The Guardian - UK

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

The Guardian - UK

Did Harold II take an arrow to the eye? We cannot be sure

Letters: Jane M Card, Tim Wicks and Rev Dr John Caperon respond to an article about the Bayeux tapestry’s journey to the UK

The Guardian - UK

Hockney scrolls through Bayeux, Brideshead gets revisited and Stubbs leads the field – the week in art

A spectacular record of a year in Normandy, the photogenic buildings of Sir John Vanbrugh and extraordinary paintings of horses

The Guardian - UK

‘A crime against our heritage’: French fury over moving the Bayeux Tapestry

Art experts and local officials in France are horrified that the 1,000-year-old tapestry is being moved across the Channel

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‘Extremely fragile’ Bayeux Tapestry at risk from British Museum ‘vanity project’, expert says

Criticism comes after artist David Hockney described moving the 900-year-old treasure as ‘madness’

The Guardian - UK

British Museum’s plan for ‘red, white and blue’ ball sparks row

Exclusive: some staff claim the theme is ‘in poor taste’ following a rise in flag-hoisting across the UK

The Guardian - UK

Rest assured, the Bayeux tapestry will be transported here safely

Letters: British Museum director Nicholas Cullinan describes the intricate planning that has been taking place. But Mark Vaughan thinks an animated display would be better

The Conversation

Why the Norman conquest still has a powerful hold over British culture and politics

Britain appears to be a nation on the verge of Norman-conquest mania. In July, the prime minister and the French president announced that the Bayeux tapestry – the epic 11th-century embroidery that depicts the 1066 conquest of England – would be loaned to the British Museum in 2026-27.

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The Guardian - UK

David Hockney’s 90-metre Normandy nature frieze to be shown in London

A Year in Normandy features iPad works with which British artist brought people comfort during Covid crisis

The Independent UK

Bayeux Tapestry: Thousands rally against ‘catastrophic’ move of 1,000-year-old relic from France to London

More than 64,000 people have signed a petition calling on Emmanuel Macron to revoke the loan of a 1,000-year-old tapestry to London

The Guardian - UK

‘La tapisserie, c’est moi’: Macron accused of putting politics first in Bayeux tapestry loan

Organiser of petition says French president ignoring expert advice that artefact too fragile to be transported to UK

The Guardian - UK

At 82, I’m completely at home with bacteria

Brief letters: Healthy living | Frozen pyjamas | Bayeux tapestry | Blake Morrison’s powerful poem | Reason to buy the Guardian

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The perils of bringing the Bayeux tapestry to Britain

Letters: Michael Daley recalls a Mona Lisa loan that narrowly avoided disaster, Tony Meacock knows where to find a Bayeux replica, and Michelle Gibson counsels against carting the priceless threads around the country

The Guardian - UK

Never mind the Norman bollocks: Reading’s replica Bayeux tapestry is a prudish triumph!

It may not be completely anatomically accurate, but the Victorian copy of the Bayeux tapestry is as much an emblem of its time as the 11th-century original

The Guardian - UK

Call for British Museum to take Bayeux tapestry to ‘1066 country’

MP calls for region where Battle of Hastings took place to be included in events surrounding return of artwork

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