23 MAY 1992, page 25

Having Ladies To Tea . . .

John Stokes recalls the people and events of a vanished age EVEN AS a schoolboy, I loved history and politics and religion. I took a close interest in the 1931 general election......

One Hundred Years Ago

THE DERVISHES of the Soudan are recovering from their torpor, and recently effected a daring raid on Serra, a village fifty miles within the Egyptian frontier. More than a......