Little This 'n' That about the Bayeux Tapestry and not a whole story

This page is from 2006 or so, and some of the links are antique, or archives.
Updated 2022; some old links deleted, some replaced.


Holly Dodd in Bayeux, France, looking at the tapestry up close (photo by Leon McNeill):

Animated Bayeux Tapestry David Newton. "Animated version of the Bayeux Tapestry. Starts about halfway through the original work at the appearence of Halley's Comet and concludes at the Battle of Hastings in 1066."
THE BAYEUX TAPESTRY - Animation by David Newton - Awarded "Highly Commended" at Learning on Screen 2004.

DMX krew and the bayeux tapestry combined. (One comment notes "The pics are from the 'Reading Tapestry', a copy created much later on.") (DMX krew, who did the music)

The city of Bayeux, in Normandy, in France, has a beautiful website called The 3 Museums. One of the museums is the tapestry, and this is freely available:

Explore the Bayeux Tapestry Scene by Scene

Smithsonian Magazine, in 2021, had an article introducing that feature: Explore Every Stitch of the Famed Bayeux Tapestry Online

Since the Bayeux Tapestry’s rediscovery in the 18th century, scholars have painstakingly cataloged the 224-foot-long embroidered cloth’s contents. Today, they know that the medieval masterpiece features 626 humans, 37 buildings (including the Mont-Saint-Michel monastery), 41 ships, and 202 horses and mules, among many other objects.


Haley's Comet appeared in 1066, and is shown on the Bayeux Tapestry, an embroidered pictorial account of the Norman Conquest of England.

More here, from another source and here's a list of astronomical evidence from other historical sources, in a timeline at History Mole (preserved by The Wayback Machine).


Invasions of England: Battle of Hastings

The Consequences of the Norman Conquest

History of lots of things with connections to everything else


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