Politically embarrassing to politically powerful: how the Bayeux Tapestry became a tool of diplomacy
The Bayeux Tapestry was created to justify William the Conqueror’s invasion of England – but its political message may have been outdated almost as soon as it was finished. As the embroidery goes on ...
For most people in 14th-century England, home meant a smoky, crowded hall where eating, working and sleeping all happened in ...
After becoming the first human to orbit Earth, Yuri Gagarin was transformed into a global celebrity and sent around the world as the smiling face of Soviet power. But what did the cosmonaut make of ...
More than two centuries before Richard III would be accused of killing his own nephews, the Princes in the Tower, another ...
The Bayeux Tapestry is being displayed in the UK as part of a landmark exhibition at the British Museum in London. The embroidery is normally housed at the Bayeux Tapestry Museum in Normandy, but a ...
Who made the Bayeux Tapestry? How many people were involved in its making? We have no sources to tell us who made the Bayeux Tapestry; however, most scholars agree that it was made in Norman England, ...
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It’s not too often that medieval historians grab national headlines, but when you get an Oxford academic counting penises in a world-famous embroidery, you’re sure to arouse media attention. On ...
Soon after dawn on 5 November 1956, British paratroopers drifted down on the El Gamil airfield near Port Said in northern Egypt. Simultaneously, French troops landed at Raswa and Port Fuad just to the ...
The Roman empire was by no means the largest in history: in fact 25 others have occupied a larger land mass either before or since. Yet very few can boast as wide-reaching an influence and impact. At ...
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