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Damien 17-01-2018 09:33
France to loan Britain the Bayeux Tapestry
 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-42713552

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The Bayeux Tapestry is set to be displayed in the UK after France agreed it could leave its shores for the first time in 950 years, the BBC understands.

French President Emmanuel Macron is expected to announce the loan during his visit to the UK on Thursday.
Classy move. :tu:

heero_yuy 17-01-2018 10:07
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Maybe we should hang onto it:

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It is likely that it was commissioned by Bishop Odo, William's half-brother, and made in England—not Bayeux—in the 1070s
Wiki

:D

papa smurf 17-01-2018 10:22
Re: France to loan Britain the Bayeux Tapestry
 
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Originally Posted by Damien (Post 35932830)
whats the slimy toad after ? beware frogs bearing gifts .

Taf 17-01-2018 10:23
Re: France to loan Britain the Bayeux Tapestry
 
I've seen it, and it's impressive, but will the rude bits be censored over here?

Hugh 17-01-2018 10:45
Re: France to loan Britain the Bayeux Tapestry
 
There's already a copy (made in 1885 by ladies from Staffordshire).

http://www2.readingmuseum.org.uk/col...yeux-tapestry/

Damien 17-01-2018 10:49
Re: France to loan Britain the Bayeux Tapestry
 
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Originally Posted by heero_yuy (Post 35932832)
Maybe we should hang onto it:



Wiki

:D
Not sure we want to set a precedent that works should repatriated to their country of origin. :erm::D

Kursk 17-01-2018 12:17
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Originally Posted by Damien (Post 35932842)
Not sure we want to set a precedent that works should repatriated to their country of origin. :erm::D
So true. We'd otherwise have to return the royal family to Germany and Greece and return a Scottish King to the throne of England.

Hugh 17-01-2018 12:37
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Originally Posted by Kursk (Post 35932850)
So true. We'd otherwise have to return the royal family to Germany and Greece and return a Scottish King to the throne of England.
Or have a Frenchman as King...

papa smurf 17-01-2018 12:40
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Originally Posted by Kursk (Post 35932850)
So true. We'd otherwise have to return the royal family to Germany and Greece and return a Scottish King to the throne of England.
Return every one to country of origin that would be interesting .

Kursk 17-01-2018 12:42
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Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 35932852)
Or have a Frenchman as King...
I don't trust M. Macron, he is too clever by half. Everyone named Harold should keep a close eye on this...

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Originally Posted by papa smurf (Post 35932854)
Return every one to country of origin that would be interesting .
We celts would be ok. We've always lived here.

papa smurf 17-01-2018 12:45
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Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 35932852)
Or have a Frenchman as King...
wouldn't we have to chop his head off for being an aristocrat .;)

BenMcr 17-01-2018 12:52
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Originally Posted by Kursk (Post 35932855)
We celts would be ok. We've always lived here.
Celts are also immigrants:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histor...00BC_to_600AD)

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In the course of the first millennium BC, immigration from continental Europe resulted in the establishment of Celtic languages in the islands, eventually giving rise to the Insular Celtic group. What languages were spoken in the islands before is unknown, though they are assumed to have been Pre-Indo-European.

Mick 17-01-2018 13:09
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Where is it actually going on display ?

I spent hours in the British Museum, there must have been a group of about 50 people around The Rosetta Stone (Which the Egyptians are said to want back but we have had it since 1802), was very difficult to get near it up close.

BenMcr 17-01-2018 13:16
Re: France to loan Britain the Bayeux Tapestry
 
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Originally Posted by Mick (Post 35932859)
Where is it actually going on display ?

I spent hours in the British Museum, there must have been a group of about 50 people around The Rosetta Stone (Which the Egyptians are said to want back but we have had it since 1802), was very difficult to get near it up close.
Don't know yet. Apparently there will be bun fight for it:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics...b0cb50d2972d88

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Huw Merriman, a Conservative, asks May to ensure the Bayeux Tapestry goes to Battle Abbey in his constituency.

May says Hastings, Amber Rudd’s constituency, also wants it. The government will look at where it can be seen by most people.

Damien 17-01-2018 15:13
Re: France to loan Britain the Bayeux Tapestry
 
British Museum seems the logical place for most people to see it. Plus they probably are the best to handle it in terms of expertise and security. Hastings and Battle Abbey will be harder for those that live outside the area. That said another thing going to London might be politically difficult.

Kursk 17-01-2018 15:42
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Originally Posted by BenMcr (Post 35932858)
Celts are also immigrants
Celts are British. English are Germanic.

Uncle Peter 17-01-2018 15:58
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Originally Posted by Damien (Post 35932869)
British Museum seems the logical place for most people to see it. Plus they probably are the best to handle it in terms of expertise and security. Hastings and Battle Abbey will be harder for those that live outside the area. That said another thing going to London might be politically difficult.
Battle Abbey would be a bit controversial due to the constant debate around the site actually being remotely associated with the physical location of the Battle of Hastings itself.

Modern analysis of the Chronicles of Battle Abbey suggest that it was built in a location other than that of the battlefield.

denphone 17-01-2018 15:58
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Originally Posted by Kursk (Post 35932872)
Celts are British. English are Germanic.
Correct Sir.

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The first people to be called 'English' were the Anglo-Saxons, a group of closely related Germanic tribes that began migrating to eastern and southern Great Britain, from southern Denmark and northern Germany, in the 5th century AD, after the Romans had withdrawn from Britain.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_people

Damien 17-01-2018 16:00
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Originally Posted by Uncle Peter (Post 35932875)
Battle Abbey would be a bit controversial due to the constant debate around the site actually being remotely associated with the physical location of the Battle of Hastings itself.

Modern analysis of the Chronicles of Battle Abbey suggest that it was built in a location other than that of the battlefield.
Yup it's also a pain for anyone on the otherside of London to get too. Most train lines go into and out of major hubs and not pan across the nation. I can see it going to Hastings because it's a super-marginal seat occupied by the Home Secretary....

BenMcr 17-01-2018 16:11
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Originally Posted by Kursk (Post 35932872)
Celts are British. English are Germanic.
My point was that even the Celts came from somewhere else, even if they have been on the Islands longer than the Anglo-Saxons.

Considering most of the British Isles were under miles of ice at one point, everyone here will have ancestors who came from somewhere else. No-one will be 'native' to the UK.

The current thinking is that any populations that were around after the Ice Age were replaced by the 'Beaker people' who were migrants (or invaders) from Europe:

https://www.nature.com/news/ancient-...ritain-1.21996

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If true, this suggests that Britain’s Neolithic farmers (who left behind massive rock relics, including Stonehenge) were elbowed out by Beaker invaders. “To me, that’s definitely surprising,” says Pontus Skoglund, a population geneticist at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, who was not involved in the research. “The people who built Stonehenge probably didn’t contribute any ancestry to later people, or if they did, it was very little.”

Taf 17-01-2018 16:26
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And William the Conqueror was of Nordic lineage.

Carth 17-01-2018 16:47
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They could stick it on the side of a bus, that way everyone will be able to see it and comment on it.

. . . well it worked for ;)

Uncle Peter 17-01-2018 16:51
Re: France to loan Britain the Bayeux Tapestry
 
Norman families got a significant foothold in Ireland, Scotland and South Wales so that "Celtic" lineage might not be quite as clear cut as it seems ;)

The old adage is that the Fitz's (Fitzsimons, Fitzwilliam etc etc) and co. in Ireland ended up being more Irish than the Irish themselves.

Kursk 17-01-2018 22:19
Re: France to loan Britain the Bayeux Tapestry
 
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Originally Posted by BenMcr (Post 35932878)
My point was that even the Celts came from somewhere else, even if they have been on the Islands longer than the Anglo-Saxons.

Considering most of the British Isles were under miles of ice at one point, everyone here will have ancestors who came from somewhere else. No-one will be 'native' to the UK.

The current thinking is that any populations that were around after the Ice Age were replaced by the 'Beaker people' who were migrants (or invaders) from Europe:

https://www.nature.com/news/ancient-...ritain-1.21996
Anglo-Saxon is not an undesirable heritage, interlopers have always been tolerated by we British ;)

Hugh 18-01-2018 08:19
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Originally Posted by Kursk (Post 35932932)
Anglo-Saxon is not an undesirable heritage, interlopers have always been tolerated by we British ;)
Except the Russians - we weren’t keen on them coming to visit us... ;)

pip08456 18-01-2018 10:13
Re: France to loan Britain the Bayeux Tapestry
 
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Originally Posted by denphone (Post 35932876)
What about the Picts?

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Picts are attested to in written records from before the Roman conquest of Britain to the 10th century, when they are thought to have merged with the Gaels. They lived to the north of the rivers Forth and Clyde, and spoke the now-extinct Pictish language, which is thought to have been closely related to the Celtic Brittonic language spoken by the Britons who lived to the south of them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picts

Kursk 18-01-2018 13:42
Re: France to loan Britain the Bayeux Tapestry
 
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Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 35932949)
Except the Russians - we weren’t keen on them coming to visit us... ;)
Except the billionnaires ;).

Back on topic (before I get told off) we should commission a new e-tapestry depicting British achievement, not its 'defeat'. A day in 1066 doesn't define the most inventive, philanthropic and sophisticated people on Earth.

BenMcr 18-01-2018 13:48
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Originally Posted by Kursk (Post 35933001)
Back on topic (before I get told off) we should commission a new e-tapestry depicting British achievement, not its 'defeat'. A day in 1066 doesn't define the most inventive, philanthropic and sophisticated people on Earth.
We've got a new one - pretty much sums up the current world situation too!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017...demned-racist/

OLD BOY 18-01-2018 19:19
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I don't think we should accept it. Can you imagine the furore from the French if we ripped it?

Taf 18-01-2018 19:49
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Originally Posted by OLD BOY (Post 35933041)
I don't think we should accept it. Can you imagine the furore from the French if we ripped it?
A good 100c boil wash and a flat iron before it goes on display, a display that will probably cost us millions.

Kursk 18-01-2018 23:42
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Originally Posted by BenMcr (Post 35933002)
We've got a new one - pretty much sums up the current world situation too!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017...demned-racist/
Thanks for that Ben - I had no idea! What a shame it’s become embroiled in a racism row.

I wonder if the new tapestry depicts the modern-day penchant amongst Britons for bickering with each other instead of facing the World together....

Kursk 17-05-2020 23:56
Re: France to loan Britain the Bayeux Tapestry
 
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Originally Posted by williams1002 (Post 36035464)
I was wondering if the tapestry is still in the UK or it was transferred...
Don’t think it’s due here until 2022.

Chris 18-05-2020 11:18
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Banned a spammer who bumped this thread for nefarious purposes

Sephiroth 19-05-2020 09:14
Re: France to loan Britain the Bayeux Tapestry
 
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Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 35932839)
There's already a copy (made in 1885 by ladies from Staffordshire).

http://www2.readingmuseum.org.uk/col...yeux-tapestry/
That link didn't work. This link did.

https://www.readingmuseum.org.uk/you...bayeux-gallery

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Originally Posted by Damien (Post 35932869)
British Museum seems the logical place for most people to see it. Plus they probably are the best to handle it in terms of expertise and security. Hastings and Battle Abbey will be harder for those that live outside the area. That said another thing going to London might be politically difficult.
Reading Museum would be an excellent location so that the two can be viewed side by side.

Maybe someone can work a "fallen Madonna with the big boobies" trick!


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