John and Lorna Norgrove have both been made OBEs for services to women and children abroad and in Scotland. They set up the ...

An historian who founded the Borders Book Festival has said being recognised in the King’s Birthday Honours feels like receiving a ...

From the good and brave to the industrious, ingenious and selfless, all of life in Scotland can be found in the King’s ...

The Bayeux Tapestry is a sprawling piece of embroidery that depicts the 11th-century Norman conquest of England. The linen cloth is roughly 230 feet long and 20 inches high, and it was likely created ...

Earlier this year it was announced that King Harold II’s residence, depicted in the tapestry, was discovered by researchers. The artifact is currently housed at the Bayeux Museum in Normandy.

In colorful detail, the Bayeux Tapestry depicts the epic story of how William, Duke of Normandy, better known as William the Conqueror, became king of England in 1066. Upon Edward’s death in ...

The Bayeux Tapestry narrates the tale of William, Duke of Normandy. After the Battle of Hastings, William went on to become the King of England in 1066. Wondering what makes this artefact so special?

Patrick Gomont, mayor of Bayeux, said in a press release ... which is not technically a tapestry at all — is of Harold, the last Anglo-Saxon king of England, being killed by an arrow to the ...

The residence of a legendary king was recently discovered in the ... Harold, one of the subjects of the Bayeux Tapestry, was famously killed in the Battle of Hastings in 1066.