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Bayeux Tapestry | Exclusive Podcast Series

Unravelling the Bayeux Tapestry Episode 5: What now?

Bayeux Tapestry | Exclusive Podcast Series

Unravelling the Bayeux Tapestry Episode 4: What's missing?

Bayeux Tapestry | Exclusive Podcast Series

Unravelling the Bayeux Tapestry Episode 3: What story does the Tapestry tell?

Bayeux Tapestry | Exclusive Podcast Series

Unravelling the Bayeux Tapestry Episode 2: How was the Tapestry created?

Bayeux Tapestry | Exclusive Podcast Series

Unravelling the Bayeux Tapestry Episode 1: When, Where & Why

A scene from the Bayeux Tapestry depicting the Norman invasion of 1066. The tapestry was most likely embroidered by women in Norman England in a workshop setting using four embroidery stitches – stem stitch; split stitch; chain stitch; and laid work, sometimes called ‘Bayeux Stitch’, says Dr Alexandra Lester-Makin. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The Bayeux Tapestry: what is it, why was it made and what story does it tell?

Norman cavalry on the charge in the Bayeux Tapestry. (Image by Bettmann/Getty Images)

Second World War

Why the Nazis fell in love with the Bayeux Tapestry

Harold Godwinson is proclaimed king of England in the Bayeux Tapestry. It may have been commissioned by a Norman but this magnificent artwork repeatedly acknowledges the English leader’s piety and courage. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

Why is Harold Godwinson a hero of the Bayeux Tapestry?

A fanciful engraving imagines Peter the Hermit presenting Pope Urban II (centre) with a letter from Simeon II

Launching the First Crusade

Charles Spencer on the HistoryExtra podcast

The shipwreck that sunk a royal dynasty

‘Inkhorn’ was the term for an inkwell made out of a small horn and became a nickname for the new words being created by playwrights and poets, such as William Shakespeare. (Photo by GraphicaArtis/Getty Images)

The evolution of the English language

Stephen Baxter on the Domesday Book (Image by Getty Images)

Domesday Book: medieval big data

Extract from Domesday Book.

Your guide to the Domesday Book: the most important document in English history?

A portrait of Henry VII, the first Tudor king of England, by Michiel Sittow. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

Monarchy timeline: from the Middle Ages to the modern era

UNSPECIFIED - CIRCA 1754: Bayeux Tapestry 1667: William the Conqueror's Norman cavalry setting out to meet Harold II's English forces, Battle of Hastings, 14 October 1066. Textile Linen (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

From the British Isles to Italy and Spain: how the Normans reshaped Europe