From bling and birds to ‘really fancy armour’ – the best dressed characters of the Bayeux tapestry

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• 01The 70-metre-long embroidery – it’s famously not, in fact, a tapestry – was stitched almost 1,000 years ago and tells the story of the Norman conquest.
• 02Even if you don’t remember your year 7 history, you might pick up that this French nobleman is going places.
• 03From bling and birds to ‘really fancy armour’ – the best dressed characters of the Bayeux tapestry.
• 04Blood, booze, arrows and boats; these are what you might typically imagine when you think of the Bayeux tapestry, which has become one of the hottest historical tickets since it went on display at the British Museum in London this month.
• 05And then the Normans have these funny haircuts with the back of their heads shaved,” says Prof Laura Cleaver, an expert in medieval manuscripts at the Institute of English Studies.
• 06According to Gale Owen-Crocker, professor emerita of Anglo-Saxon Culture at the University of Manchester, he’s wearing “the most elaborate dress in the whole tapestry”.
• 07Harold Godwinson, a powerful earl, brother-in-law to Edward, and rival to William the Conqueror, appears frequently throughout the tapestry.