Steam is to return to the Bletchley and Bicester section of the old Varsity Line for the first time since 1967 and passengers ...

MENTION William the Conqueror and most people think of King Harold, who was killed in the Battle of Hastings in 1066. However, what does history actually tell us about their relationship?Playwright ...

John and Lorna Norgrove have both been made OBEs for services to women and children abroad and in Scotland. They set up the Linda Norgrove Foundation in memory of their daughter, an aid worker who was ...

An historian who founded the Borders Book Festival has said being recognised in the King’s Birthday Honours feels like ...

The Bayeux Tapestry embroidery, measuring 70 metres long and 50 centimetres high, was created in the 1070s, with nine panels comprising 58 scenes showing events leading up to the Norman Conquest ...

The Bayeux Tapestry depicts one of Britain’s most famous clashes, the Battle of Hastings in which William the Conqueror defeated Harold Godwinson to take the English throne.. Now, the cloth is ...

Row breaks out over Bayeux Tapestry after historian claims he's found an 'extra penis' By HARRY HOWARD, HISTORY EDITOR. Published: 20:47 EDT, 24 April 2025 | Updated: 20:47 EDT, 24 April 2025 .

Most of the penises are in a state of arousal, while the whopper on William’s steed, above, was seen as a symbol of his great virility Credit: Bayeux Tapestry. But Anglo-Saxon nudity expert Dr ...

A missing fragment of the Bayeux Tapestry was discovered in the state archives of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany’s northernmost state, more than 80 years after Nazi researchers stole it from ...

The 11th-century Bayeux Tapestry will go off display from August 2025 to 2027 for preservation, returning in a newly designed exhibition space.

From Picasso’s “Guernica” to Goya’s “Disasters of War,” there have been many famous depictions of conflict, but one of the oldest, and most extraordinary, is France’s 11th-century Bayeux Tapestry.