Clue: Sex party: beauty shot making historic record (6,8)
Answer: BAYEUX TAPESTRY
Explanation: Definition: historic record
(SEX PARTY BEAUTY)* – the pictorial record of the Norman conquest in 1066, which is really an embroidery, not a tapestry, and was probably made in England, though it's now exhibited in Bayeux (I saw it there – eek! – nearly 50 years ago)