1

Our England is a Garden

By Rudyard Kipling

There is plenty of work in the garden of England for everyone, whether they have a green thumb or not.

2

Thus Was the Empire Born

By Rudyard Kipling

According to Kipling, the British Empire was the last resort of Englishmen who could not stand conditions at home.

3

The Book That Made Kipling

By Sir George MacMunn

Sir George MacMunn traces Kipling’s masterly handling of English and of storytelling to reading the King James Bible aloud.

4

Dane-Geld

By Rudyard Kipling

Three years before the Great War, Rudyard Kipling recalled how one English king simply paid his bullying neighbours to stay at home.

5

The Phantom Rickshaw

By Rudyard Kipling

Jack Pansay has just bought an engagement ring for the bewitching Kitty Mannering, yet to his annoyance it is the late Mrs Wessington he is thinking about.

6

‘Kings in Our Own Right’

By Rudyard Kipling

Two former soldiers in India find British bureaucracy cramps their style, so they set off to become kings of their own land.