The small county Kildare town twinned with Saint Contest in Normandy in 2019, an event that did receive strong local attention because the inaugural visit from France happened during the St Patrick's ...

What it tells us about the past: This tapestry was first recorded in 1476 as part of the inventory of the Bayeux Cathedral, but it was likely commissioned in the 1070s by Bishop Odo, a close ...

The embroidered cloth depicting the battle is referred to for the first time in an inventory of Bayeux Cathedral 1732-3: Antiquarian Smart Lethieullier writes the first detailed English account ...

2,000-year-old RSVP: A birthday invitation from the Roman frontier that has the earliest known Latin written by a woman The last scene on the Bayeux Tapestry shows the Battle of Hastings.

The woven art tells the story of the conquest of England, depicting scenes of battle and celebration, and has spent centuries hidden away in the Bayeux cathedral in France, according to the Bayeux ...

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Harold, one of the subjects of the Bayeux Tapestry, was famously killed in the Battle of Hastings in 1066. His Bosham residence was depicted twice in the tapestry, but the remnants of the ...