Bayeux Tapestry politics & natural disasters: history behind the headlines

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🗓️ 21 July 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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In the latest episode of our monthly series charting the historical background of current news events, regular panellists Hannah Skoda and Rana Mitter are joined by Matt Elton and Dr David Musgrove to explore what the Bayeux Tapestry tells us about the history of Anglo-French relations – and how people in previous centuries coped with natural disasters. The HistoryExtra podcast is produced by the team behind BBC History Magazine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:50.3	Hello and welcome to our monthly series History Behind the Headlines. I'm Matt Elton. In each episode, an expert panel will be exploring the historical news stories that have caught their eye and the history that will help you make sense of what's going on in the world. Each month, I'll be joined by our two regular panelists. I'm Hannah Skoda. I'm fellow and tutor in medieval history at St. John's College in Oxford.
1:14.9	I'm Rana Mitter. I'm S.T. Lee Chair in U.S. Asia Relations at the Harvard Kennedy School,
1:21.1	and I'm a specialist on modern Chinese history.
1:23.9	Hanran Rana, thank you both so much as always for being here with us.
1:27.0	We're going to start this month with the big news announced earlier in July that the Bayer Tapestry is set to return to the UK for the first time in more than 900 years and we'll go on display at the British regime in London next year. To help us understand more about why this is such big news and a bit about the longer history of the politics of it at all. I'm delighted
1:44.6	to say that we're joined by Dr Dave Musgrove, whose content director of History Extra and the History Extra
1:49.5	and the co-author with Michael Lewis of the story of the Bayer Tapestry unraveling the Norman
1:55.2	conquest. Dave, to kick us off, why is this such exciting news? Well, this is the biggest news in the history world. Biggest
2:02.3	news in my career, and particularly because I've written this book, it's very exciting. So,
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