The Diary Review

It is 30 years since Dan Eldon - a bright young star of photojournalism - was killed aged only 22 covering events in Somalia that presaged t...

‘At last we anchor for the night just inside Nazareth Bay, for Nazareth Bay wants daylight to deal with, being rich in low islands and sand ...

Poor William Grant Stairs. Aged but 28 he died of malaria 130 years ago today. Having been caught up in the feverish ‘Scramble for Africa’ a...

One hundred and twenty years ago today, a young Tasmanian soldier, John Hutton Bisdee, serving in the Boer War, risked his life to carry an ...

A newly published diary from Pen & Sword Books tells the story of Anthony Barne, a young soldier who started the Second World War as a c...

‘Another four years to say “less than thirty years old”. Will I be forgiven for being “old” without having yet published ten novels and four...

‘We met a Brazillian named Jose dos Cento, who came to Whydah a poor man, but has become rich, from his own direct energies, and perseveranc...

Alex Comfort, a scientist and the famed author of the sex manual The Joy of Sex , was born a century ago today. In fact, he wrote many books...

‘This morning we discerned the Mountains of Jagga more distinctly than ever; and about ten o'clock I fancied I saw a dazzlingly white cl...

Kwame Nkrumah, the first president of Ghana, was born 110 years ago today. He led the British colony of Gold Coast to independence and overs...