The historic Bayeux Tapestry makes a great wall hanging for your home.
One cannot use the Bayeux Tapestry as a source for political history, since it is biased, and also because it is a very complex wall hanging "document." The upper and lower borders are mostly simply decoration, but sometimes show scenes that may be comments upon or clarifications of the story unfolding in the middle section of the Bayeux Tapestry. Some of the scenes in the Bayeux Tapestry can be identified as being from the Bible or Aesop's Fables, but the sources of others in the wall hanging are unknown and the significance of the scenes is obscure at best. One might use as an example, the panel of the tapestry that portrays King Harold and his men eating and drinking in an upper room while waiting for a fair wind to the Continent. In the Bayeux Tapestry the Norman account of these events claims that King Edward had told Harold to go to Normandy and announce to Duke William that the childless Edward wished William to succeed him as king of England. Harold, however, was not only the greatest noble on England but was also ambitious. The Bayeux tapestry shows it was not difficult for his followers to convince him not to reveal King Edward's will to Duke William, to bide his time, and - as soon as Edward was dead - to seize the royal treasury at Winchester and have himself crowned king.
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