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The Bayeux Tapestry will go on display in London later this year, giving people the opportunity to see the huge embroidered masterpiece up close.
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The Bayeux Tapestry is a nearly 70-metre-long embroidery which tells the story of the events leading up to the Norman invasion of Britain, which led to the famous Battle of Hastings in 1066.
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The Bayeux Tapestry will go on display in London later this year, giving people the opportunity to see the huge embroidered masterpiece up close.
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The tapestry is one of the most famous artworks from the Middle Ages and helps give historians rare clues about what life was like nearly 1,000 years ago.
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The Bayeux Tapestry will go on display in London later this year, giving people the opportunity to see the huge embroidered masterpiece up close.
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The Bayeux Tapestry is a nearly 70-metre-long embroidery which tells the story of the events leading up to the Norman invasion of Britain, which led to the famous Battle of Hastings in 1066.
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The tapestry is one of the most famous artworks from the Middle Ages and helps give historians rare clues about what life was like nearly 1,000 years ago.
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Did you know? The Bayeux Tapestry features 623 men, 3 women, 190 horses, 37 ships, 35 dogs, 506 birds and animals, 33 buildings and 37 trees or groups of trees.
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Nobody knows exactly who was behind the Bayeux Tapestry, but many historians think William's half-brother, Bishop Odo of Bayeux, may have been involved.
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Experts are also unsure exactly who stitched the Bayeux Tapestry, but it was likely made by a group of skilled artists and embroiderers rather than one person.
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According to the British Museum, it's widely thought that English women could have been involved, as their needlework skills were admired across Europe at that time.
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Some historians think it was likely created by nuns from Barking Abbey, one of the wealthiest and most important nunneries in medieval England.
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Some historians think it was likely created by nuns from Barking Abbey, one of the wealthiest and most important nunneries in medieval England.
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The artwork is usually displayed at The Bayeux Museum in the northern French region of Normandy, however the museum is undergoing renovations at the moment.
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The artwork is usually displayed at The Bayeux Museum in the northern French region of Normandy, however the museum is undergoing renovations at the moment.
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This is why it is being loaned to the British Museum in London.
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zostać wystawionym, zostać udostępnionym start learning
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The tapestry will go on display in the UK from 10 September 2026 until 11 July 2027, before it makes its journey back to France.
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The forest isn't a place where you want to be in the dead of night. The Bayeux Tapestry was delivered to the British Museum in the dead of night.
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