Bayeux Tapestry politics & natural disasters: history behind the headlines

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 panellists. I'm Hannah Skoda.

I'm fellow and tutor in medieval history at St. John's College in Oxford. I'm Rana Mitter. I'm ST Lee Chair in US-Asia relations at the Harvard Kennedy School, and I'm a specialist on modern Chinese history. Han Renroana, thank you both so much as always for being here with us.

We're going to start this month with the big news announced earlier in July. The Bayer Tapestry is set to return to the UK for the first time in more than 900 years and will go on display at the British Museum in London next year. To help us understand more about why this is such big news and a bit about the longer history, the politics of it all, I'm delighted to say that we're joined by Dr. Dave Musgrove, who's content director of History Extra and the History Extra podcast, and the co-author with Michael Lewis of the story of the Bayer Tapestry. Unraveling the Norman conquest.

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