The Diary Review

Vasco da Gama, the famous Portuguese explorer, died all of half a millennium ago today. Although he did not leave behind a diary of his own,...

Here is a second sample chapter from the yet-to-be-published London in Diaries , this one about a German tourist to London in August, more t...

Ten years ago this month I completed a book called London in Diaries . Unfortunately, I was unable to find a publisher. So, rather than let ...

Today marks the 470th anniversary of the birth of Roger Wilbraham, a lawyer by training who held various high posts under Elizabeth I  and J...

Samuel Ward, a sixteenth century religious scholar who spent all his working life at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, died 380 years ago to...

‘The lordes of the counsel sat at Gildhaul in London, where in the presence of a thousand peple they declared to the maire and bretherne the...

In the moon’s clear light all mundane desires are but a path of dreams So wrote the great poet Saiokuken Sōchō in medieval Japan, half a mil...