22+ hour, 5+ min ago   (604+ words) "It's really humbling just to be there and think of all those huge decisions being made, but then you've got the reality of the people participating on the front lines losing their lives." The fate of the world hinged on…...

22+ hour, 59+ min ago   (580+ words) The Bayeux Tapestry is on display to the public in the UK for the first time since its creation about 950 years ago - but if you missed out on tickets, there is another way to enjoy it. The 70m-long (230ft) tapestry, originally…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago   (19+ words) bbc.com Read more about the first day of the Bayeux Tapestry exhibition....

2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (844+ words) The Bayeux Tapestry has gone on public display in the UK for the first time since it was created nearly 1,000 years ago. It was originally embroidered in England but kept for centuries in France, and tells the story of the…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (356+ words) Coins from an "internationally significant" hoard found in the West will be part of the Bayeaux Tapestry exhibition at the British Museum. The tapestry goes on display in London later, marking the first time it will be visible in England…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (597+ words) An "exceptionally rare" Anglo-Saxon ornament more than 1,400 years old has been blocked from leaving the UK by the government. The metal mount, depicting a four-legged animal, was discovered by a metal detectorist in Holme Hale, near Swaffham, Norfolk, in 2024. The…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago   (1079+ words) In the early hours of 8 September 1936, three middle-aged academics with no prior history of criminality trudged through a field, armed with petrol cans, to set fire to an RAF bombing school. This was arguably the event that placed Welsh nationalism…...

5+ day, 22+ hour ago   (728+ words) The Bayeux Tapestry's arrival in England for the first time in 1,000 years has been welcomed by the King and prime minister, but its arrival has helped put a new spotlight on a lesser-known Victorian copy. Created in 1886 by a team…...

6+ day, 22+ hour ago   (536+ words) A self-confessed "Fen Tiger" has described how his 1930s Fenland childhood involved collecting rainwater to drink and mostly living off the land. Don Bradshaw, 96, grew up in a farming family and spent his formative years in the village of Manea, Cambridgeshire,…...

6+ day, 21+ hour ago   (358+ words) The Diana Memorial Fountain in Hyde Park - which has long been a popular place to cool down in hot weather - has been kept dry all summer due to a technical fault. Royal Parks, the charity that maintains the central London…...