21+ hour, 50+ 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, 9+ hour ago   (19+ words) bbc.com Read more about the first day of the Bayeux Tapestry exhibition....

2+ day, 13+ 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…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (419+ words) A man has returned his late grandfather's library books which were overdue by 116 years. Peter O'Sullivan's grandfather, Walter Griffith Owen, took out Milton's Paradise Lost and Shakespeare's King Lear in 1910. A note inside showed they came from former Llanrwst Reading…...

3+ day, 2+ 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…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (616+ words) A set of giant monoliths known as the "Devil’s Arrows" were moved 18km (11 miles) across Yorkshire by Stone Age people, new research has found. The three columns have been standing in a farmer's field in Boroughbridge for thousands of years, with…...

4+ day, 21+ 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…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (352+ words) A Nottingham historian who was among the first people to view the Bayeux Tapestry after it arrived in the UK hopes it will spark greater interest in a crucial period of history. The medieval artwork depicting the Norman Conquest of…...

5+ day, 17+ hour ago   (441+ words) Podcaster, author and comedian Andrew Hunter Murray revisits one of the most extraordinary media deceptions of the 20th century in a new ten-part series from The History Podcast, The Hitler Diaries Scandal, available on BBC Sounds and BBC Radio 4 from Monday…...

5+ day, 21+ 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…...