The Bayeux Tapestry - 950 Years Of Propaganda, Intrigue & Spin

The Bayeux Tapestry is instantly recognisable as one of the most outstanding cultural objects to survive from the early Middle Ages. Long admired for its vivid narrative, today many questions intrigue the modern audience. This lecture looks at the tapestry’s creation – was it made by men or women and in England or France? In more recent times you will hear why the tapestry was displayed by Napoleon, why it was cherished by Victorian embroiderers and why Hitler wasn’t able to purloin it.

Timothy brings a lifetime’s interest in Anglo-French relations to bear on this famous object set to become even more celebrated as it enters its next, surprising chapter.

How to book this event:

No booking required for members.

Money raised by the sale of raffle tickets at our lectures, is used to raise money for Young/Community Arts so please bring along some cash to buy your raffle tickets. They are on sale in the lobby.

Guests welcome, £10 on the door refundable against membership should you join. Please let us know in advance by emailing b owdonmain@outlook.com so we can manage numbers.

THE ARTS SOCIETY ACCREDITED LECTURER

Mr Timothy Wilcox

Timothy Wilcox is a writer, lecturer and exhibition curator with special interests in British art, in landscape and in watercolour painting. He was a museum curator in the British Museum Department of Prints and Drawings following positions at the V&A, in Liverpool and Hove. As a freelance curator and lecturer since 1997, he has organised exhibitions on Laura Knight, Hilda Carline, John Sell Cotman and John Constable, at venues including Tate, The Lowry, the Wordsworth Trust and Dulwich Picture Gallery. He contributes regularly to the educational programmes at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford and lectures at museums and galleries in Britain, Europe and the USA.