Wednesday 28 October 2026
The Bayeux Tapestry
The Bayeux Tapestry – A Play in Three Acts looks at the physical history of the object itself and the real-life events that led to it being commissioned, before taking a journey along the whole length of the tapestry describing and annotating the individual scenes depicted.
Speaker: Gary Fisher graduated from the University of London with a degree in Historical Geography. After a career as a surveyor until the age of forty, Gary decided on a change of direction that has seen him working in many different aspects of the entertainment business ranging from designing and operating sound and lights in theatres to touring the country as a performer in The Circus of Horrors. Gary’s two great interests coincided when he began to work as a costumed historical interpreter at historical locations including The Tower of London, Hampton Court and Dover Castle. Until its closure due to Covid Gary also ran the Living History Project at Hatfield House in Hertfordshire where schools would come and meet Henry VIII and Elizabeth I and members of their respective courts in the actual building that would have been known by the monarchs. He now takes these characters out into schools.
