The Diary Review

‘Departed on Air Force One for the northeastern part of England in the Newcastle area, Tyne and Wear County, which was coincidentally the on...

‘This day cut short all our hopes and fears about our only remaining boy. At an early hour this morning his eye became dull, Anna tried repe...

‘The day began with the barber telling me that, as of September 19, we will have to wear a badge bearing the word “Jew,” even six-year-old c...

Ralph Josselin - an Essex vicar, teacher and farmer - died 340 years ago this month. Though not particularly familiar as a historical name, ...

‘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...

’The Germans play their game cleverly: treason on all sides. Why is it that in no other people drawn into the war is there so much treason a...

Martín Sarmiento, a much-admired Spanish scholar and monk, died all of 250 years ago today. He wrote on a wide variety of subjects, but he i...

Henry V, one the great warrior kings in medieval England, died exactly six centuries ago today. He is honoured especially for his military s...

A decade ago this month History Press published Brighton in Diaries , a collection of diary extracts about the city, one of Britain’s most v...