I had my own little stage on which to play out the thrilling stories I was discovering from the rich tapestry of medieval history. (Speaking of tapestries, when I turned 7 the following August, I used ...

The Bayeux Tapestry has long been treated as a spectacular picture book of conquest, a 70-metre strip of embroidery that freezes the Norman invasion in thread. Now a new wave of scholarship argues ...

There’s a town in Sussex you can visit with historic buildings and a charming high street with tickets for £6 in the Great British Rail Sale.

The downtown historic district, with its distinctive Tudor-style buildings, creates an atmosphere that feels both foreign and familiar at the same time. It’s like someone took a quaint English village ...

A professor is challenging old assumptions about the iconic Bayeux Tapestry, proposing it was created for a refectory for ...

There are surprisingly few historical sources concerning the Tapestry's origins and purpose, but new research has offered new ...

New research by a historian from the University of Bristol offers an intriguing suggestion about one of history's biggest mysteries—the original purpose of the world-famous Bayeux Tapestry. In a paper ...

A groundbreaking bioarchaeological study from the Universities of Edinburgh and Cambridge has shattered long-held assumptions about medieval migration patterns into England. Rather than arriving in ...

The 770-pound Bayeux Tapestry depicts the Norman conquest of England in 1066. By Laura Baisas Published Dec 15, 2025 11:04 AM EST Get the Popular Science daily ...

Nearly 1,000 years after it was produced, a key mystery surrounding the murky origin of the Bayeux Tapestry may have been solved. Professor Benjamin Pohl, a historian at the University of Bristol, ...