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The Bayeux Tapestry’s Long Journey Home
The Guardian UK and The New Yorker describe the same event in different terms.
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What happenedIt’s perhaps the most famous textile in the world. But getting it to England required years of diplomacy, a horde of engineers, and a touch of kindness from the French.
The headline splitThe Guardian UK frames it as "Why the Bayeux tapestry and Franco-British relations are natural bedfellows". The Independent frames it as "Two threads torn in Bayeux Tapestry on journey to London from France".
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Left / center-leftWhy the Bayeux tapestry and Franco-British relations are natural bedfellows
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Why the Bayeux tapestry and Franco-British relations are natural bedfellows
Tapestry’s loan to UK is just another chapter in the love-hate relationship that has spanned the centuries since it was created Five British prime ministers ago – and six French ones – when...
It’s perhaps the most famous textile in the world. But getting it to England required years of diplomacy, a horde of engineers, and a touch of kindness from the French.
