The Diary Review

The Galtee Boy, the Irish republican activist  John Sarsfield Casey , was born 180 years ago today. Imprisoned and then deported for his cri...

‘Everyone complains about the scarcity of food supplies, but all are firmly determined to hold out. The distribution of food must be still f...

William Bagshaw Stevens, born 270 years go today, died laughing. But, in his relatively short life, he had been an ineffective headmaster of...

André Michaux, a French botanist and explorer sent to North America in search of new species to replenish the forests of France, was born 28...

Today marks the 320th anniversary of the death of John Evelyn, a contemporary and friend of Samuel Pepys, who described him as a ‘most excel...

Today marks the 190th anniversary of the birth of Ramakrishna, the Bengali temple priest and religious teacher whose influence on modern Hin...

‘TB said in ’97, no one must “we are masters now”. We must focus on our duty to serve - or something similar. The reality of his behaviour i...