Perhaps you got tickets for the British Museum’s “stupefying” Bayeux tapestry exhibition, which opens to the public on Thursday – and bully for you if so. Very likely, though, you didn’t. While tens of thousands of tickets were snapped up in minutes when they first went on sale in July, most of those who joined the frenzied online queue were left with an empty basket and a millennium-sized dose of Fomo.
More tickets for slots in early 2027 will be released next month, though demand is certain to far outstrip supply again. So as narrative embroidery madness seizes Britain in the coming months – with dinner party chitchat and Instagram reels consumed by discussions of medieval couching stitch and the identity of the mysterious Aelfgyva – how will the have-nots cope?
