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Unravelling the Bayeux Tapestry Ep1: When, where and why was the Tapestry made?

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The Inscriptions - Is This a Problem for Me?

The inscriptions a very short latin tags, which say things like, here is william. There's one or two occasions when you get a little bit more. But they ther theyare esentially, very terse e captions to the main action and not really giving much else away. I think it's all about insuring that we can tell a story, that every one's side can be sort of taken on board. And so the idea is that both the conquered english and the victorious normans, and anyone else in between, i guess.

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