Was Kipling a Grimm? (see HomePage)
This is an excerpt from the sixth episode “Highway of Tears” from the fourth season of the popular US television series “Grimm”. This episode was first broadcast on November 28, 2014.
John McGivering Writing Competition 2024
The winner of this year’s competition for stories featuring food and drink and connected with Kipling, is Stef Downham’s ‘A Cup of Chai.’ The runner-up is Nick Meo’s story ‘Dinner with the Enemy’. (The prize…
A Tour of Burwash and the wider Bateman’s Estate
The filmed tour shown at the Society meeting on 18 September 2024.
Latest Newsletter
Our August 2024 Newsletter provides details of future events including our next meeting on Wednesday 18 September. This will be on-line only. A film will be shown of a tour of a tour of the…
E.M. Forster and Kipling
A video of Dr Howard Booth’s talk ‘E.M. Forster on Rudyard Kipling: fifty years of responses’ given at the Society meeting on 3 July 2024.
The story of my Kipling collection
The Society’s President, David Alan Richards, spoke on this topic at the Society’s meeting on 17April 2024.
Managing colonial famine in Rudyard Kipling’s ‘William the Conqueror’
Dr Charlotte Boyce of Portsmouth University spoke on this topic at the Society’s meeting on 7 February 2024.
Kipling and masculinity: “But a good cigar is a smoke”
At our meeting on 22nd November, John Walker offered a talk intended to spark discussion. In the event, the online system faltered and he had to shorten his argument. He has asked that the original…
Kipling teaching children how to write
At the Society we have been delighted to be approached recently by a teacher whose Year Five pupils have been excited by the Just-So stories and are now writing their own. If there are other…
Kipling as a Science Fiction writer
Poul Anderson, a leading American science fiction writer, wrote of Kipling: “He is for everyone who responds to vividness, word magic, sheer storytelling. Most readers go on to discover the subtleties and profundities.” There are…
This week’s quotations
From his three hundred and fifty stories and nine hundred poems Kipling has contributed more familiar quotations to our language than anyone since Shakespeare. Here’s another group of three for you to identify …
The Cantor of St. Illod’s being far too enthusiastic a musician to concern himself with its Library, the Sub-Cantor, who idolised every detail of the work, was tidying up, after two hours’ writing and dictation in the Scriptorium. The copying-monks handed him in their sheets–it was a plain Four Gospels ordered by an Abbot at Evesham—
Her cinnabar-tinted topsail, nicking the hot blue horizon, showed she was a Spanish wheat-boat hours before she reached Marseilles mole. There, her mainsail brailed itself, a spritsail broke out forward, and a handy driver aft; and she threaded her way through the shipping to her berth at the quay as quietly as a veiled woman slips through a bazaar.
His mother, a devout and well-born Roman widow, decided that he was doing himself no good in an Eastern Legion so near to free-thinking Constantinople, and got him seconded for civil duty in Antioch, where his uncle, Lucius Sergius, was head of the urban Police.
Here are the sources of these extracts
Past Newsletters
Newsletters are sent by e-mail to members four weeks before each Society meeting, with details of that meeting and other events, reports on past events, and articles on subjects large and small. Past newsletters are available below, each with an item of particular interest highlighted.
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- June 2024 Why we read Kipling – Part 10
- March 2024 Additions to the David Alan Richards Collection – part 3
- January 2024 ‘The Dog Hervey’ email exchange
- October 2023 Things as They Are – part 2
- August 2023 Reminiscences of Bateman’s
- June 2023 A new discovery at Bateman’s
- March 2023 Kim: An introduction to India – part 1
- January 2023 A letter from Lord Roberts
- October 2022 The Dalleys of Goldings HIll Farm – part 2
- August 2022. Why we read Kipling – part 1
- June 2022 Policy on Derogatory Terminology
- March 2022 Kipling’s uncle, Harry Macdonald
- January 2022 Kipling and Bairnsfather – final part
- October 2021 Kipling’s Uncle Joseph
- August 2021 A tribute to Peter Bellamy
- May 2021 ‘Something in Common’ – final part
- March 2021 ‘If’ reimagined – read by Serena Williams
- February 2021 ‘Rudyard Kipling and Bruce Bairnsfather’ part 1
- January 2021 ‘Something in Common’ – Rottingdean and Glendale
- December 2020 Filming with Michael Portillo at Bateman’s
- October 2020 ‘Rudyard Kipling, A Secret Life’
- August 2020 Burwash Forge Part 2
- July 2020 Remembering John McGivering
- June 2020 Burwash Forge Part 1
- April 2020 A Short History of Bateman’s (2)
- March 2020 A Short History of Bateman’s (1)
- January 2020 Kipling and Beerbohm Tree
- October 2019 Kipling in Epping Forest
- August 2019 Kipling and Rider Haggard
- June 2019 Lady Butler, War artist and Traveller
- March 2019 Kipling’s Motoring Diaries
- January 2019 Kipling’s statue in Burwash
- November 2018 The new Mowgli film
- November 2018 “The Cause of Humanity and Other Stories”
- October 2018 “Into the Jungle”
- March 2018 Society business
- July 2017 “A Diversity of Kipling”