Rudyard Kipling (In Our Time)
1894 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of Rudyard Kipling. Born in Bombay in 1865, Kipling has been described as the poet of Empire, celebrated for fictional works including Kim and The Jungle Book. Today his poem 'If--' remains one of the best known in the English language. Kipling was amongst the first writers in English to develop the short
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Around 1894
- Adolf Hitler (1889)
- Pop music: the 1900s (1900)
- Wright Brothers first flight (1903)
- Van Gogh's The Starry Night (1889)
- Mao Zedong (1893)
- Federation of Australia (1901)
- Wright Brothers' first powered flight (1903)
- Russo-Japanese War (1904)
- Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams (1899)
- New Zealand grants women the vote (1893)