Surly Egypt


This 1924 Punch cartoon showing an Imperious Britannia rebuking a surly Egypt. 'I gave you Liberty,' she declares accusingly, 'see to it that the things done by you in her name do not make me repend my gift'.


The Wafd: Egypt 1918 - 1927


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by Stephen Luscombe