Tapestry of horrors

I am writing in response to the letter by Peter Fieldman (March), in which he argued that the Bayeux Tapestry shouldn’t be moved. I agree with him but for very different reasons.

This tapestry is a celebration of the worst catastrophe to befall the English nation, and ultimately Wales and Ireland, leading to the dispossession, murder and starvation of hundreds of thousands of innocent people belonging to the richest and best-run country in Europe. All this conceived by a megalomaniac with a spurious claim to the English throne, aided by his mercenary cohorts.

Much has been said about the eradication of Confederate statues as symbols of oppression, but then what may I ask is the Bayeux Tapestry? If people want to see this icon of subjugation, culminating in the servitude of the British and later Irish people, then I suggest they go to Normandy to view it! Chris Dunford, Wellingborough

Anglo- Saxon subversion

Michael Lewis’s analysis of the Bayeux Tapestry was very interesting ( Why Is Harold a Hero of the Bayeux Tapestry?, March). He suggests that the fear of ppopularp resentment of a trium- phalist portrayal was behind the positive images of Harold. But doesn’t this assume the modern mass communication of images? If Twitter and Facebook were circulating scenes from the Tapestry to tens of thousands, this would make sense, but it was surely seen by very few. Perhaps it was just good old-fashioned subversion on the part of those female embroiderers; one last (and lasting) blow for Saxon England. Nick Spenceley, Essex