401. Norman Conquest: Secrets of the Bayeux Tapestry (Part 1)

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Device. Hello and welcome to Empire with me, William Drumple, and I'm afraid no Anita today, uh, because uh Anita's got another project, um, and so I am diving in on our new series alone, and our new series is around the Bio Tapestry, the exhibition of the year. at the British Museum, which uh suddenly my Instagram has been flooded with for the last two weeks, uh and I got to see the Bow Tabs do a depress briefing and it is everything that it's cracked up to be. So you must go and see it. But what we decided to do on Empire was not to just dwell on the story in the Tapestry. and the Norman conquest of Britain. But To open it up, uh as this is a global history podcast, to all the Norman conquests, which means telling the story.

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