Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of Rudyard Kipling, a writer sometimes described as the poet of empire. Show more Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of Rudyard ...

It is 80 years since the death of Rudyard Kipling. The author of The Jungle Book and If died without finding out what had happened to his son, who disappeared during World War One. Now researchers ...

STUDENTS at Manchester University have painted over a wall mural of Rudyard Kipling’s poem “If”, replacing it with “Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou. The incident took place in the University’s Student ...

Anyone who has ever attended the US Navy's Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape (SERE) school will never forget Rudyard Kipling's poem "Boots," according to SERE graduate and Navy veteran Ward ...

With New Year’s Day on the horizon, many people will set out to make a list of resolutions for 2018. On January 1st, 1887, Rudyard Kipling explored the human desire to make New Year’s resolutions in ...

Rudyard Kipling has gone far out of fashion. Born in Bombay, in British India, in 1865, he was an unapologetic imperialist; he even coined the phrase “take up the white man’s burden” to mark the ...

A small box, which has sat largely unnoticed for almost a century among the possessions of the writer Rudyard Kipling at his home in East Sussex, has been newly identified as a very rare 300-year-old ...

Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. Sixteen-year-old Rudyard Kipling returned to India after a miserable childhood ...

150 år efter sin fødsel bliver forfatteren til ’Den hvide mands byrde’ atter læst og positivt nyvurderet – efter generationers nedrakning, hvor Kipling blev set som vulgær pøbelophidser, rodløs ...

Two original watercolour illustrations for Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, long thought lost, have been rediscovered and will be offered in Roseberys' Old Master, British & European Pictures ...