Three years before the Great War, Rudyard Kipling recalled
how one English king simply paid his bullying neighbours to stay at home.
Length: 55 words
Stories in Short
The Phantom Rickshaw
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.
Length: 114 words
Rudyard Kipling
‘Kings in Our Own Right’
Two former soldiers in India find British bureaucracy
cramps their style, so they set off to become kings of their own land.
Length: 115 words
Poets and Poetry
The Gods of the Copybook Headings
After the devastation of the Great War, calls rose for a new economic
and social system, and to put the wisdom of our forebears behind us.
Length: 172 words
Indian History
The Making of Tommy Atkins
In all his years of soldiering at home and abroad, Major-General George Younghusband had never heard British soldiers talk like those in Kipling’s tales.
Length: 119 words
Rudyard Kipling
Kipling’s Proof
If officials in the Raj ever forgot who their boss was,
they would bring the whole government down about their ears.