The 93 penises of the Bayeux Tapestry
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🗓️ 24 April 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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| 1:04.2 | Welcome to the History Extra podcast, fascinating historical conversations from the makers of BBC History magazine. |
| 1:14.2 | Historians have counted a lot of things in the Bay of tapestry. Animals, ships, hands, |
| 1:20.4 | plants, but nobody had counted the amount of penises within it until Oxford historian Professor George Garnett took on the challenge. |
| 1:30.5 | A while back he wrote an article on this subject for BBC History magazine, and for this |
| 1:35.1 | episode, Dave Musgrove invited George to reveal just how many penises he did find in the tapestry |
| 1:41.4 | and explain why this is, in fact, serious research that helps us to better |
| 1:46.7 | understand this vital account of the Norman conquest of 1066. |
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