John McGivering Writing Competition 2025
JOHN McGIVERING WRITING PRIZE 2025 REPORT AND WINNING ENTRIES BY JANET MONTEFIORE For this year’s John McGivering Writing Prize, competitors were invited to submit poems on the sea, to be connected directly or indirectly with…
There’s more than engines to a ship
Dr Muireann O’Cinneide of the University of Galway’s talk delivered to the Society on 24 September 2025 can now be viewed on our YouTube channel at “There’s more than engines to a ship”: Steamships…
Latest Newsletter
Our August 2025 Newsletter provides details of future events including the next online meeting on Wednesday 24 September at which Dr Muireann O’Cinneide of the University of Galway will speak on ‘”There’s more than…
Conservative Belief and the Imagination in Kipling’s Fiction
A recording of Mark Paffard’s 2 July 2025 talk to the Society can be heard on the Society’s YouTube channel. Conservative Belief and the Imagination in Kipling’s Fiction
Naulakha 2025: Restoring a Literary Landmark
The talk given to the Society by Susan McMahon, Executive Director of the Landmark Trust USA, on 23 April 2025 is now available to view on the Society’s YouTube channel at https://youtu.be/0yUCVcD0ark?si=nmLImpnmKPFcLtYZ or below.
Kipling and Browns Hotel
The talk given by Andy Williamson, hotel historian, on 5 February 2025 can be viewed on our YouTube channel at Kipling and Browns Hotel
Password Change
The password for access to the members’ pages of this website changed from Friday 10 January 2025. The new password was included in the e-mail announcing the January 2025 newsletter, which members should have received…
‘The Finest Story in the World’: A Clerk’s Tale
A talk given by Prof. Jan Montefiore to the Kipling Society on 27 November 2024
John McGivering Writing Competition 2024
The winner of Kipling Society’s John McGivering Literary Competition 2024 for stories featuring ‘Food and Drink’ is Stef Downham, whose story ‘A Cup of Chai’ vividly communicates how glamorous and puzzling India appears to…
A Tour of Burwash and the wider Bateman’s Estate
The filmed tour shown at the Society meeting on 18 September 2024.
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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- March 2025 Bateman’s Exhibition Room reopens
- January 2025 Newly-discovered Kipling letters
- October 2024 Kipling and Angela Thirkell – part 1
- August 2024 Library exhibition at Haileybury
- 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”