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””’The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling””’ is a 2003 book by the British historian [[David Gilmour (historian)|David Gilmour]]. It is about the writer [[Rudyard Kipling]], particularly his relationship with [[British Empire|British imperialism]] and his complex and nuanced portrayals of the nationalities and ethnic relations within the British Empire.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Leland |first=John |year=2003 |title=Review of The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling |journal=[[The Journal of Military History]] |volume=67 |issue=2 |pages=582-583 |doi=10.1353/jmh.2003.0135 |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780374187026 |title=The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling |newspaper=[[Publishers Weekly]] |date=29 April 2002 |access-date=1 October 2025 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=McBratney |first=John |year=2004 |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A208111285/LitRC |title=David Gilmour, The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002), xiii + 351 pp., $26.00 cloth |url-access=subscription |journal=Nineteenth-Century Prose |volume=31 |issue=1 |pages= |access-date=1 October 2025 }}</ref>
””’The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling””’ is a 2003 book by the British historian [[David Gilmour (historian)|David Gilmour]]. It is about the writer [[Rudyard Kipling]], particularly his relationship with [[British Empire|British imperialism]] and his complex and nuanced portrayals of the nationalities and ethnic relations within the British Empire.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Leland |first=John |year=2003 |title=Review of The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling |journal=[[The Journal of Military History]] |volume=67 |issue=2 |pages=582-583 |doi=10.1353/jmh.2003.0135 |doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780374187026 |title=The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling |newspaper=[[Publishers Weekly]] |date=29 April 2002 |access-date=1 October 2025 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=McBratney |first=John |year=2004 |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A208111285/LitRC |title=David Gilmour, The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002), xiii + 351 pp., $26.00 cloth |url-access=subscription |journal=Nineteenth-Century Prose |volume=31 |issue=1 |pages= |access-date=1 October 2025 }}</ref>
The book received the [[Elizabeth Longford Prize|Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Hensher |first=Philip |date=14 May 2003 |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/philip-hensher/exceedingly-good-advice-from-mr-kipling-590511.html |title=Exceedingly good advice from Mr Kipling |newspaper=[[The Independent]] |access-date=1 October 2025 }}</ref>
The book received the [[Elizabeth Longford Prize|Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Hensher |first=Philip |date=14 May 2003 |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/philip-hensher/exceedingly-good-advice-from-mr-kipling-590511.html |title=Exceedingly good advice from Mr Kipling |newspaper=[[The Independent]] |access-date=1 October 2025 }}</ref>
