Discussion: ‘The Light that Failed’
On Thursday 20th April at 6pm there was an online meeting to discuss Kipling’s The Light That Failed, his first novel and an intriguing tale of unrequited love, art, war and male comradery. Unfortunately the…
Kipling, Rajahs and the Raj
Professor Harish Trivedi delivered this most interesting talk under the above title on 19 May 2023.
The web-site since the Face-lift
As the nights get longer in northern latitudes use of the internet tends to increase. Our reader numbers are currently averaging some 3000 a day. The verse is the main attraction, in particular, “The…
Recording of 1 February 2023 meeting
On 1 February 2023, Rufus Vaughan-Spruce spoke to the Society on the topic ‘The Other Man Who Could Write: Stephen Wheeler as Man of Letters’.
The King’s Pilgrimage
On 16 November 2022, Christopher Kreuzer gave a talk to the Society on the 1922 visit of King George V to the Flanders war graves, the subject of Kipling’s poem ‘The King’s Pilgrimage’, during which…
A tour of Bateman’s
The film shown at the Society’s meeting on 21 September 2022 can be viewed here.
A Kipling playlist on Spotify
We have put together this Spotify playlist with a selection of Kipling-related music containing both his verses set to music and music inspired by his works. If there is something you know is already…
Verse on our Facebook page
After three years of posts titled ‘Verse of the Week’, we have over six hundred followers, though with sharing this multiplies up. On March 20th for example, we had a ‘reach’ of more than six…
In the Kipling Library, April 13th
April 13th 2022 at 1800 BST on Zoom: members joined Dr Toby Parker, the Society’s Honorary Archivist and John Walker, our Hon. Librarian, in a celebration of rare or unusual books and ephemera to be…
One spot beloved over all
Richard Howell’s talk from February 2022 on how Rudyard and Carrie acquired and developed the Bateman’s estate.
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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- 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