The British Museum (BM) is now planning the display of the Bayeux Tapestry, following long discussions over its loan from France. The Tapestry has until now been shown in Bayeux, in Normandy, in its ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Everyone in Britain knows the date of 1066 - Reuters/Ardee Napolitano Going through a long-undisturbed drawer the other day, I ...

Detail of Scene 52 of the Bayeux Tapestry showing a group of horsemen fighting with spears and swords, armored with mail-shirts and helmets, and carrying shields. The Bayeux Tapestry, an extraordinary ...

Simply sign up to the Geopolitics myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Napoleon Bonaparte saw it as a propaganda tool to promote his planned invasion of Britain. The Nazis were fascinated ...

It is likely to pass us by and almost certainly under the cover of darkness. But at some point this summer, one of the world’s most historic artefacts - valued at close to £1 billion - will make its ...

The medieval masterpiece—embroidered on a 230-foot piece of linen—depicts bloody battles and a royal betrayal that led to the Norman conquest of England. The Bayeux Tapestry, an extraordinary ...