Dave Musgrove

More than six years since Professor George Garnett totted up the depictions of male genitalia in the famous Bayeux Tapestry – causing a media storm in the process – and he has no regrets. Speaking to Professor Garnett and fellow Tapestry scholar Dr Christopher Monk, David Musgrove reveals how the surprisingly explicit subject matter still has plenty to tell us about our medieval forebears

From ancient law codes to 20th-century psychoanalysis, the story of fatherhood is far stranger and more surprising than you might think

With the loan of the Bayeux Tapestry to the UK confirmed, David Musgrove explains the historical significance of the embroidery’s potential arrival on British soil…