‘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.
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…
Kipling’s Atlas
When Max Aitken, the future Lord Beaverbrook, came to England from Canada in 1910, one of the first people he made friends with was Rudyard Kipling, the most widely read author in the English speaking…
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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- October 2025 Letter from America – no. 1
- August 2025 Treasures of Bateman’s – no. 1
- June 2025 Was Kipling Mowgli?
- 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 The new Mowgli film
- October 2018 Kipling’s statue in Burwash