The Bayeux Tapestry: History and Interpretations

Send us Fan Mail As our regular listeners know, I am an Anglo-Saxon historian. Previously, I did several episodes with my good friend Dr. Jennifer Paxton on the Norman Conquest of my beloved Anglo-Saxon England. In them we mentioned one of the most famous sources for that event, the so-called Bayeux Tapestry. Today marks the opening of the British Museum’s exhibition of the Bayeux Tapestry, the culmination of eight and a half years of intense negotiations with the Bayeux Museum. British...