" Nearly 1,000 years after it was made, the Bayeux Tapestry is back in England – and UK schoolchildren are being asked to imagine its missing final scene.

For some British schoolchildren, history homework this autumn is going considerably further than a worksheet on the year 1066.

A new competition is asking primary students across the UK to design and stitch a new final panel for the Bayeux Tapestry, a 70-metre-long embroidered account of the Norman conquest of England with a famously missing final section.

Nobody knows exactly what it originally showed. Rather than trying to reconstruct the lost scenes, however, the children are being asked to imagine what might have come after the conquest, picturing a “better tomorrow” rather than another battle."



https://www.euronews.com/culture/2026/08/17/a-better-tomorrow-uk-schoolchildren-get-the-chance-to-rewrite-the-ending-of-the-bayeux-tap