Word: bayeux
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hufton published her first book, "The Bayeux in the Late 18th Century," in 1967, five years after receiving her Ph.D. in history. She has written two other books, one of which, "The Poor of Eighteenth Century France," won the presitigous Wolfson Award in 1975. The Wolfson Award is the only outstanding history award given annually in England, Hufton said...
...brutality. Although no one wants to be reminded that both sides occasionally shot prisoners, usually because they lacked the time or means to guard them, one notorious exception is the 12th SS Panzer Division's murder of nearly 40 Canadian and British prisoners in a château garden near Bayeux. Liska's unit ran into a handful of soldiers in German uniforms from the conquered Eastern territories who had probably been pressed into service. Said Liska, "They kept saying they were Russians or Poles. The Americans didn't know who was who so they shot them...
...supposedly minor, "decorative" arts, and to help rehabilitate all fiberwork as a serious medium of visual discourse. So they do-at times movingly; and it is well to keep in mind how many of the vestments, arrases and other trappings whose function was to affirm male power, from the Bayeux Tapestry to the sacerdotal wardrobes of the church, were actually made by women...