Game of Thrones gets Bayeux Tapestry treatment
The Bayeux Tapestry is an embroidered depiction of the events leading up to the Norman Invasion of England and culminating with the Battle of Hastings.
25 September 2019
Uncovering the mysteries of England’s Bayeux Tapestry and its connections to Charlemagne
A team of academics, led by the University of Bristol, are hoping to raise awareness of a unique, but little-known, medieval fresco which depicts fighting
20 July 2018
MAP#59: Author Ian Macgill, 1066 and The Rhyme of King Harold
Journalist and author Ian Macgill found his writing passion traveling through the jungles of South America. As a young man Ian was awarded the Winston
10 November 2014
Grandfather hand-carved 230 Foot wooden scale model of Bayeux Tapestry to help get over the death of his teenage son
This is a great story! I hope a museum or someone buys this and puts it on display. Be sure to click through to the
15 January 2014
MAP#45: 2013 Medieval Year in Review
2013 is coming to a close. That means it’s time for a year in review wrap up of the year’s medieval events and we have
26 December 2013
One in the eye for history: experts still fighting over the site of the Battle of Hastings
It is the most famous battle in British history, fought, as every schoolboy knows, in 1066 at a site now marked by Battle Abbey, near
16 January 2013
Bayeux Tapestry engraved on crystal bowl
An artist from a village near Wincanton has recreated one of the world’s most renowned tapestries on a stunning glass dish. Frank Grenier, of North
11 October 2012
Archeologists: Viking massacre came to unexpected ending
Plundering, pillaging and plenty of sea food — what wasn’t to like about the life of a Viking? How it sometimes ended, suggests an archeological
25 January 2012
MAP#19 – 1066 and The Battle of Hastings
Today is the 945th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings. We look at the year 1066, the death of King Edward the Confessor and the
14 October 2011
Last panel of Bayeux Tapestry to be completed at Wallingford’s Medieval Fair
Children will have the chance to finish the final missing panel of the Bayeux Tapestry at a Medieval Fair in Wallingford on Saturday. Experts at
17 August 2010
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