Bayeux Tapestry

[Ayahuasca]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/03/18/bayeux...

The French had agreed to loan us our own tapestry for a couple of years, but will now only do so if the UK museum agrees to restore it at a cost of around £2 million while it is over here.

Why its return wasn’t a red line in the Brexit negotiations I don’t know, but is it worth paying 2m to be able to borrow it for a couple of years?

[paul0843]

I am sure the Greeks would have backed the idea of returning the Tapestry to its rightful owners

[bigandclever]

There’s a Victorian version in Reading town hall, just use that one.

[gregs656]

Ayahuasca said:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/03/18/bayeux...

The French had agreed to loan us our own tapestry for a couple of years, but will now only do so if the UK museum agrees to restore it at a cost of around £2 million while it is over here.

Why its return wasn’t a red line in the Brexit negotiations I don’t know, but is it worth paying 2m to be able to borrow it for a couple of years?

A redline in the Brexit negotiations.... Have you started the weekend early?

'Our own' - if you know something about the provenance of it, there are plenty of Historians who would be interested.

[gazza285]

Tea towel tapestry, job done.

[DeepEnd]

Telegraph making people angry again.

About a bit of cloth.

Probably a competition between bottom feeding journos to see who create the most xenophobic frothing over the least contentious inanimate object.

[Smiler.]

DeepEnd, the PH version of Millie Tant.

[Evercross]

It's not a tapestry. It's an embroidery.

[Pugaris]

Ayahuasca said:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/03/18/bayeux...

The French had agreed to loan us our own tapestry for a couple of years, but will now only do so if the UK museum agrees to restore it at a cost of around £2 million while it is over here.

Why its return wasn’t a red line in the Brexit negotiations I don’t know, but is it worth paying 2m to be able to borrow it for a couple of years?

Good to see British museums getting a taste of their own medicine.

[mrtwisty]

Smiler. said:

DeepEnd, the PH version of Millie Tant.

Smiler., the PH version of Major Misunderstanding.

[Killer2005]

gregs656 said:

Ayahuasca said:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/03/18/bayeux...

The French had agreed to loan us our own tapestry for a couple of years, but will now only do so if the UK museum agrees to restore it at a cost of around £2 million while it is over here.

Why its return wasn’t a red line in the Brexit negotiations I don’t know, but is it worth paying 2m to be able to borrow it for a couple of years?

A redline in the Brexit negotiations.... Have you started the weekend early?

'Our own' - if you know something about the provenance of it, there are plenty of Historians who would be interested.

This. How the hell is it "ours"?

[Liokault]

Don’t let the BBC near it, most of that 2 million will be spent adding black people in, along the general lines of rewriting our history.

[Gareth79]

It's probably a fair trade if it's available for 18 months+ display.

Although the last time they let a Brit near it (Charles Stothard) he took wax pressings of the fabric and then finally cut out and stole a piece to take home.

[FourWheelDrift]

Do they want us to put all the 93 penises back in that were edited out in the 19th century?

Telegraph paywall.

[Liokault]

FourWheelDrift said:

Do they want us to put all the 93 penises back in that were edited out in the 19th century?

Telegraph paywall.

Wasn’t that just on the copy we made?

[FourWheelDrift]

Liokault said:

FourWheelDrift said:

Do they want us to put all the 93 penises back in that were edited out in the 19th century?

Telegraph paywall.

Wasn’t that just on the copy we made?

Sounds like the original - https://www.historyextra.com/period/medieval/bayeu...

[TonyToniTone]

Liokault said:

Don’t let the BBC near it, most of that 2 million will be spent adding black people in, along the general lines of rewriting our history.

That's hilarious Tommeh

[BritishBlitz87]

I don't see the point really, we've already got a stitch-for-stitch replica in Reading, in much better condition that the original at that.

I've been to see it myself, took me the best part of a hour from start to finish and didn't cost me a penny!

[Liokault]

TonyToniTone said:

Liokault said:

Don’t let the BBC near it, most of that 2 million will be spent adding black people in, along the general lines of rewriting our history.

That's hilarious Tommeh

It is hilarious! In fact, why are there no BAME people (can I call them BAME people of colour?), as we all have been re-educated that the original Brits were black and that we have always had black people here in even greater numbers than pre 1995 history books would have you believe
.

[Liokault]

FourWheelDrift said:

Liokault said:

FourWheelDrift said:

Do they want us to put all the 93 penises back in that were edited out in the 19th century?

Telegraph paywall.

Wasn’t that just on the copy we made?

Sounds like the original - https://www.historyextra.com/period/medieval/bayeu...

The link you posted counts 93 knobs on the original, then states that the Victorian copy (in Reading) had some editing. No one did a knob hit job on the original (to my knowledge).