Private Peter Thiel viewing of the Bayeux Tapestry alarms museum staff
John Redwood here - still smarting from an invasion that took place... NINE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS ago
Otto English77John, John for Christ's sake John...
Duncan Jones26Never too late to claim one’s victimhood, Otto!
Duchess Gemma 🐠🕷️🇪🇺26For god's sake don't tell him about the Romans
Samantha's Silver Earrings21He was in government with Richard Drax and Edward Leigh. Just pointing out that if you want to meet the modern descendants of the Normans, the Tory Part is the optimum place.
Stuart Valentine Dodgson20I bet he has Norman ancestry. Like the rest of us.
Dave Almighty20For him the grief is still too near. The irony is the vast majority of the UK is owned by the direct descendants of William the Conquerors pals. His leadership group are the nobility John Redwood cosies up to.
Pete Marchetto99To quote a French friend, 'If we hadn't liberated you in 1066, you'd all still be speaking German.'
Adam Powley77This can't be real. This can't be real. It's real, isn't it?
James Austin18I *really* like the historically accurate but clearly condescending use of 'Embroidery' here
bleary (feat. Akon)16Sounds terrible, imagine someone doing that to your country?
ᚅᚓᚃ ᚆᚐᚔᚏᚇᚑ ᚃᚆᚑ ᚇᚔᚄ12Quote post this to give your historian followers conniptions
Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼♂️😉10So Jon Redwood thinks 1000’s of French soldiers killed in The Hundred Years War, when England invaded France died vey happily skewered on pikes & lances, slashed to death by swords, shot by arrows or murdered in cold blood afterwards as they were peasants and worth nothing.. Ohh how they laughed🙄
Andy Burge 🇬🇧🇪🇺7I make the same point as previously - that the descendants of Normans became today's establishment. There's a lot wrong with the UK establishment but it is not the big brother type described by paranoid amd deluded types like Redwood and Farage.
Iain Roberts6Among the many absurdities, Redwood wrongly calls it the Bayeux Embroidery - a great example of a pedant being completely wrong. It's an embroidery but its called the Bayeux Tapestry.
James Barišić 🇭🇷5*The countries of the former British empire enter the conversation*
Knitting Cat5He remembers it like it happened yesterday.
we have expanded the museum's forward plan. our newly-added goal is simple and achievable: - absorb the British Museum into our museum so that we can technically display the Bayeux Tapestry by osmosis
The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL)112it's going to be the post-Norman Norman Conquest of the British Museum
Andrew Robinson (no, not Garak)19This would create An Absolute Unit of a Museum.
Your Cyberpunk Future13There are even scenes from rural life on the Bayeux Tapestry. It would fit right into your portfolio!
Lynn Marriott8I cannot see any flaws to this plan…
Andrea Lostgoth knits6Sounds a fab plan. Don’t forget the biscuits for distracting the director. Mmm wait was it Feathers Mcgraw idea?
Mike’s Hard Mayonnaise𓅣5The Reading Museum is closer and has *a* Bayeux Tapestry.
Martin Nutbeem20I'd watch this museum based heist movie.
Tapani Hopkins4Ambitious and expansion-orientated museum strategy. 👍 (If you add the British Museum to the collections, does it get its own specimen ID?)
Andrea Lostgoth knits2Please let this headline happen, British museum MERL newest acquisition.
The Bayeux Tapestry demonstrates that it's worth embroidering a good story.
Austen 6You had me in stitches.
Awatha6Possibly. But I've lost the thread.
Mnemosyne4Pricked my sense of humour.
RedCosmonaut4more to the needlepoint, it shows that a well thought thread can be a money-spinner....
Ardern of Chaversham4Surely there's a whole thread in this subject matter.
Gareth Jones2Finding a good joke about the Bayeux Tapestry is like trying to find a needle in a Hastings.
Having the #BayeuxTapestry in the UK just now is exciting but DID YOU KNOW that in the #Orkney Archive we have our very own tapestry which tells the story of St Magnus? It's not as old/long/historically significant as the Bayeux Tapestry but it's still well worth a visit. 🪡
John Henderson1The British Museum should borrow it for a bit after the Bayeux Tapistry goes home. It'll save having an empty tapistry display case laying around.
Dave Annal Lifelines Research1Yeah but all they’ve got is the occasional arrow in an eye. You’ve got skulls being split wide open. Have they got skulls being split wide open? I don’t think so… (actually they probably have)
Peter Thiel didn't come to the UK to look at the Bayeux "tapestry", I'm sure. Why was he here? And who gave him the special favour of a secret, private viewing? And who else was with him? #R4Today
valerie.bsky.social15And why did he get to see it before the official unveiling and the King’s viewing? Who decided he was more important than the Head of State
Stuart Miles8I do hope the British Museum are not getting into bed with Palantir to surveil its visitors.
Vicki the cats' mother5I cannot help but wonder why we heard this week that the NHS will not be getting rid of Palantir. Our personal health data will continue to be harvested.
Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️⚧️⚧️🦗2Thiel is quite high on my list of suspects for why the nice Mr Burnham is standing aside while trans people are quietly being surgically removed from society in the UK, among other horrors.
kevinanthony.bsky.social2How much if anything did he offer Osborne’s British museum? Who else was with him?
Simon Edmonds1Maybe George Osborne by any chance ?
I saw the Bayeux Tapestry in 2007, bet they've added loads to it since then x
BUCKERS29I bet this section is absolutely beautiful x
BUCKERS18For Brexit, I bet someone just did a poo on it.
ian.fenrisgames2huh. i expected this to be a thread
Chinny Honk2I saw it in 2008 and it was up to date - had Karen Matthews' arrest on it.
DaveMc🍺2I saw it way back in when it was just the Bayeux Teatowel
Hugh1Bayeaux Tapestry sequel - 2 Bayeux 2 Tapestry
More evidence here that the far right takes academia very seriously, and puts considerable effort into buying its influence: "Vaughan’s [chief of staff at Thiel Capital] broad aim was to build a network of conservative influence at Cambridge and other elite universities"
Margot Finn6Also conspicuous in the avowed goal of the McDonald Agape Foundation (Lord Biggar's big funder at Oxford) of 'planting' the 'footprint of Christ' in elite British universities.
Peter Flynn1Exactly like the Russians did in the inter-war years. Conservatives must now be regarded as spies for an external agency fighting to control you, as traitors to your country, and treated accordingly.
Finally, we don’t actually know who MADE the bayeux tapestry! The French maintain it was their court ladies; this seems unlikely based on materials and technique; the strongest theory currently is English nuns but look at the size of it. Not a small group.
madeline odent217Anyway the one thing we know for absolute certain? Like, the ONE (1) thing? It’s not a tapestry. It’s not woven. It’s an embroidery. Go forth and become insufferable with that tidbit.
keri13the book Femina from Janina Ramirez talks about it in one chapter, and how it was distributed (?) in sections to embroider, then sewn up, and iirc each section was probably done by multiple women? like it is a LOT (also, I loved that chapter)
Brits scoffing at each other for the mispronuncing Bayeux forgetting that the word Paris exists.
Mark Hale just wrote a fucking novel!3It's an embroidery, not a tapestry
Sam Turner3And that nobody spoke either English or French at the time it was made.
John Waine1What is the history of the English (and maybe others ???) making up English names for foreign cities and countries? What is the point?
The Other David Harper1I'm reminded of Chaucer's Prioress: And Frenssh she spak ful faire and fetisly; After the scole of Stratford atte Bowe, For Frenssh of Parys was to hire unknowe.
Sharon Bennett Connolly1Can't get used to jearing it referred to as "Bayoo" though. Where did that come from? Mind you, I'm not keen on the Templars being referred to as Templaars (and that's English!)🤣🤣🤣
Ian Myers1Oddly, I would say that I was travelling to Paris to watch 'Paree Roobay' bike race.
