Study 129: Bayeux Tapestry British Museum Demand: Institutional Necrophagy’s High-Velocity Display.

On July 1, the British Museum had the biggest ticketing day in its 273-year history: more than £2.5 million in a single day, an online queue that peaked above eighty thousand people, and a website strained to 4.7 times its normal traffic: all for the chance to stand before a nine-hundred-year-old embroidery. The Bayeux Tapestry's London loan (September 10, 2026, July 11, 2027) marks the first time the object has crossed the Channel since it was stitched, probably in England, in the 1070s. This study reads the frenzy through the PLCFA framework, and begins by correcting its own institutional co