Password Change

The password for access to the members’ pages of this website will change from Friday 10 January 2025. The new password was included in the e-mail announcing the January 2025 newsletter, which members should have received on Wednesday 8 January. If you have any problems using the new password, please contact website editor Ian Bell at iansambell@me.com. If you have not received the newsletter e-mail, please contact the secretary at michaelrkipling@gmail.com

Latest Newsletter

Our January 2025 Newsletter provides details of future events including our next meeting on Wednesday 5 February, at which historian and expert of the golden age of travel Andy Williamson will talk on “Kipling and Brown’s Hotel”. There are also a number of other news items and short articles, including descriptions of several recently discovered letters from Kipling

 

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 for Young Writers is not being awarded this year.) Congratulations to both winners.
Both the winning stories will appear in January 2025, in Kipling Journal 400 (the January number) and on this website.

Janet Montefiore
Competition Organiser

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.

 

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.

Any member who is not currently receiving an online copy of the Newsletter and would like their name to be added to the mailing list should email the Membership Secretary, Fiona Renshaw, at ksmemsec@outlook.com