Sussex: Rudyard Kipling exhibition set to open at Bateman's
2025-02-15
Category: entertainment

An exhibition about the life of Nobel Prize-winning author Rudyard Kipling is set to open in East Sussex. The display, at the National Trust property Bateman's, near Burwash, will use items Kipling collected during his travels to tell the story of his life. The Kipling Collection Exhibition Room, which is free to visit, is set to open on Saturday. Hannah Miles, collections and house manager at Bateman's, said the exhibition had "given us an excellent opportunity to bring rarely seen objects out of the collection stores to engage our visitors". 
The exhibition focuses on themes of travel and empire, tragedy and legacies,  a Bateman's spokesperson said. It includes rare items such as a Japanese painted scroll and a wooden pig gifted to a prime minister. Kipling was born in India in 1865 and released one of his most famous works, The Jungle Book, in 1894. Bateman's, which was built in 1634, was the family home of Kipling, who moved there in 1902. He wrote Puck of Pook's Hill and Rewards and Fairies, which includes the renowned poem If, at the property.Kipling was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1907.
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