321. Exploding Rum-filled Coffins, Anglo-Indian Sisterhood, & Julia Margaret Cameron

Hello and welcome to Empire. I'm afraid it's just me today without Anita because she is resting after her terrible week in. A and E, for which she's now recovered, but she had a miserable time and I'm glad to say she'll be back with us next week for our Indian mutiny, our 1857 Great Uprising series, which starts next week. In her absence, I thought I could get away with smuggling in one more relative into the pod because she's not here to stop me. And I have a free hand.

So today will be the final episode of our photographers who documented Empire. the Eyes on Empire mini-series that we've been doing. And I felt we couldn't allow that to pass without taking the opportunity to talk about my great aunt, Julia Margaret Cameron. Now, to traverse her life, we are joined by the wonderful art historian and my friend Emily Burns, who has just edited the fantastic book, Women of Influence, The Paddle Sisters, which accompanies the brilliant new exhibition at the Watts Gallery near Guildford, which has just opened and which we recommend that you definitely go and visit.

It's a wonderful gallery set in this beautiful and unexpectedly rural valley just down from the Hogsback, with the wonderful Watts Chapel and as well as the uh the gallery. So it's an extraordinary place to go and visit. If you don't know it, um Now is the time to discover it. If you do know it, come and see the new exhibition, which uh will dazzle you.

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