Over on My London Your London I’ve an account of the Myths of Bengal exhibition at the British Museum. It has wonderful striking images of powerful women – unfortunately they’re all goddess, and they all get tamed in the end.

But the exhibition also has some lovely domestic quilts, that show women making the most of the opportunities available to them, such as the one from which this detail of British soldiers is taken …

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