Visitors got a first glimpse of the medieval artefact after it went on display at the British Museum in LondonOn the day Bayeux tapestry tickets were released, Megan Stockwell was at the beach. She was so determined to lock down...
Read MoreTapestry’s loan to UK is just another chapter in the love-hate relationship that has spanned the centuries since it was createdFive British prime ministers ago – and six French ones – when Emmanuel Macron first confirmed that...
Read MoreBritish Museum, LondonThe greatest battle ever depicted in art is here at last – and it hurtles along, making your heart pound with its sense of doom and destiny, culminating in fires and corpses on a battlefield full of...
Read MoreMonarch tells Emmanuel Macron at the British Museum in London that the two nations will share a future ‘woven together’ by history and shared valuesThe loan of the Bayeux tapestry was the “the best possible symbol” of the...
Read MoreCulture secretary Lisa Nandy is among first to view epic embroidery at British Museum marking big step in Anglo-French diplomacyIn the decade after Brexit, the relationship between Britain and France has been defined by rows...
Read MoreCulture secretary Lisa Nandy is among first viewers as epic embroidery is unpacked at British Museum, a landmark in Anglo-French diplomacyIn the decade after Brexit, the relationship between Britain and France has been defined...
Read MoreWant to see some old wonders but don’t fancy forking out £33 for 40 minutes with a tapestry? Our critic celebrates the British treasures you can see all year round – from monstrous crypt carvings to the vaulting glory of our...
Read MoreWant to see some old wonders but don’t fancy forking out £33 for 40 minutes with a tapestry? Our critic celebrates the British treasures you can see all year round – from monstrous crypt carvings to the vaulting glory of our...
Read MoreIt may not be completely anatomically accurate, but the Victorian copy of the Bayeux tapestry is as much an emblem of its time as the 11th-century original‘We’ve already got one,” sneers a snotty French knight in Monty Python...
Read MoreStarmer and Macron are due to attend a more formal summit tomorrowThe BMA strike decision must be a tempting topic for Kemi Badenoch at PMQs, which is starting very soon. The Conservatives have repeatedly criticised the...
Read MoreThe French president has spent time with King Charles and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge on the first day of his state visit to the UKFrench police slashing the boats of people smugglers is not “pleasant” but the right...
Read MoreLifesize replica of 70-metre work was part of sale of late Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts’s estateIn 1872, a photographer from the South Kensington Museum – now the Victoria and Albert – travelled to France to take...
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