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.
Rudyard Kipling, a Secret Life
This remarkable documentary first seen in October 2019 on Sky Arts, is now available on DVD. Its main focus is a fresh and revealing exploration of events from Kipling’s grim childhood legacy of neglect and separation,…
A Diversity of Kipling 2017
John Walker Bateman’s (revisited December 2024) On August 12th/13th 2017, a 24 hour reading of Kipling’s works was presented by the society from Bateman’s NT, Kipling’s home. It was masterminded by John Walker, then Chairman…
Rudyard Kipling by Andrew Lycett. Paperback edition
Ever since its publication in 1999, Andrew Lycett’s distinguished and deeply researched biography has been a standard work of reference for Kipling scholars and general readers alike. This paperback edition, with a new introduction by…
A battle in Afghanistan
As Charles Carrington recounts (p. 214) in 1894, on holiday in Bermuda, Kipling chanced to meet a sergeant in the Royal Berkshire Regiment who carried him off to the sergeant’s mess. This enabled Kipling…
Cross-references in the ‘Puck’ stories and “The White Man’s Burden”
ELT Press at Greensboro in North Carolina, publishers of the periodical English Literature in Transition, are bringing out two special issues to mark their fiftieth year, one of which (50:2,2007) includes a most interesting article by Lisa…
Kipling’s Forgotten Sister
A collection of previously unpublished writings by Kipling’s sister Trix, by Lorna Lee has been published. Michael Smith describes it as: “…a treasure trove of unpublished writings … and a fascinating collection of facts, memories, and photographs.”…
Barrack-Room Ballads
A paperback edition of Barrack-room Ballads has been published in Signet Classics with an new Introduction and Annotation by Andrew Lycett. (ISBN 0-451-52886-7)
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