ABSTRACT
The events taking place along the Nile in the Sudan - part of a long and tedious campaign - attracted little press coverage in the spring of 1898. Mter all the British public was used to hearing about small wars in faroff comers of the Empire, and this campaign had already lasted for two years with few dramatic incidents. The penny papers did provide some sketchy details and the illustrated press printed a few pictures but domestic news dominated and the only overseas event of any significance was the campaign being waged against the Spanish in Cuba and the Philippines by American forces. For a nation which ruled the waves, many Britons watched the naval campaign unfolding between a world empire in decline, and a burgeoning world power, with more interest than the slow advance of an expeditionary army under Kitchener towards Khartoum.
