Our August 2026 Newsletter provides details of future events including the Society’s next meeting on Wednesday 23 September when Christian Muller of the University of Pretoria will speak on ‘Changing perceptions of the Boers before, during, and after the South African War in a selection of Rudyard Kipling’s works’ (online only). Also the Alliance of Literary Society’s Fair in Birmingham on Saturday 3 October.
Read (and see) the report of our visit to Haileybury in July, the ‘Are Koko’ lullaby, Kipling’s guns, an 1890 American woman’s Kipling scrapbook and much much more.
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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2026
2025
2024
2023
January 2023 A letter from Lord Roberts
March 2023 Kim: An introduction to India – part 1
June 2023 A new discovery at Bateman’s
August 2023 Reminiscences of Bateman’s
October 2023 Things as They Are – part 2
2022
January 2022 Kipling and Bairnsfather – final part
March 2022 Kipling’s uncle, Harry Macdonald
June 2022 Policy on Derogatory Terminology
August 2022 Why we read Kipling – part 1
October 2022 The Dalleys of Goldings Hill Farm – part 2
2021
January 2021 ‘Something in Common’ – Rottingdean & Glendale
February 2021 ‘Rudyard Kipling and Bruce Bairnsfather’ part 1
March 2021 ‘If’ reimagined – read by Serena Williams
May 2021 ‘Something in Common’ – final part
August 2021 A tribute to Peter Bellamy
October 2021 Kipling’s Uncle Joseph
2020
January 2020 Kipling and Beerbohm Tree
March 2020 A Short History of Bateman’s (1)
April 2020 A Short History of Bateman’s (2)
June 2020 Burwash Forge Part 1
July 2020 Remembering John McGivering
August 2020 Burwash Forge Part 2
October 2020 ‘Rudyard Kipling, A Secret Life’
December 2020 Filming with Michael Portillo at Bateman’s
2019
January 2019 The new Mowgli film
March 2019 Kipling’s Motoring Diaries
June 2019 Lady Butler, War artist and Traveller
August 2019 Kipling and Rider Haggard
October 2019 Kipling in Epping Forest
2018
October 2018 Kipling’s statue in Burwash