5+ day, 4+ hour ago   (529+ words) For the first time in almost 1,000 years, the Bayeux Tapestry is back on British soil for a special exhibition at the British Museum.The intricately worked 70-metre-long tapestry tells the epic story of William the Conqueror's bloody conquest of England…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (606+ words) A council is demanding that its residents be offered priority booking to view the Bayeux Tapestry at the British Museum. Canterbury City Council in Kent said: 'Such an offer is available to the people of Hastings and Rother due to…...

2+ week, 4+ hour ago   (1102+ words) A stocky, battle–scarred man who lived through one of the most dramatic periods in English history has been brought back to life nearly 1,000 years after his death. Scientists have digitally reconstructed the face of a man who survived the…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (910+ words) A long–lost battlefield where Anglo–Saxon forces delivered a devastating defeat to a Viking army could finally have been found. Researchers believe Castle Hill, a former Iron Age hillfort near Beaford in North Devon, matches ancient descriptions of the…...