The Diary Review

‘This morning there comes a dispatch from Chattanooga stating that the enemy had taken Fort Donelson. Generals Pillow, Floyd, Buckner with t...

One Rev. John William Horsley was born 170 years ago today. Although not much remembered, he was a social reformer of great character - as m...

‘What could become of me, and what will become of me? My powerful fantasy will drive me into the insane asylum, my violent temperament will ...

‘Yesterday evening was really frightening. The air-raid siren went off at eight o’clock, just as we were giving the patients their supper. T...

The diary of the teenager Tanya Savicheva has to be one of the most poignant documents left behind by the Second World War, no matter that i...

Amy Lowell, a colourful and influential personality in American poetry during the first quarter of the 20th century, was born 150 years ago ...

Beatrix Potter - author and illustrator of the much-loved Peter Rabbit books - died 80 years ago today. As a teenager and young woman, Potte...

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...

‘The French people do not seem to think it wrong to cheat or lie, or the least disgraceful to be told they do.’ Such was the view of a preco...