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A vast, international and unrivalled collection of diary extracts - from over 1,000 diarists

Friday, May 30, 2008

Fake diary debacles

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A couple of ambitious fake diaries have been in the news lately. A diary attributed to France’s Sun King, Louis VIX, was mistakenly used by ...
Thursday, May 29, 2008

British PM kidnap plot

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Can you decipher the newly-released diaries of Lord Hailsham (Quintin Hogg)? The diaries, partly written in code, have already revealed that...
Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Wyn and Joe's special needs

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Blue Sky July , a collection of intimate and heart felt diary-type musings by Nia Wyn mostly concerning her severely disabled child Joe, has...
Tuesday, May 27, 2008

A child in the ghetto

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Rutka Laskier, a 14 year old Jewish teenager, was confined with her family to the Będzin ghetto, in southern Poland, and then killed by the ...
Friday, May 23, 2008

The Steadyhand Diaries

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Financial services might not be the most riveting of diary subjects, and financial services in Canada may be even less so, but Tom Bradley h...
Thursday, May 22, 2008

The lure of birds’ eggs

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The obsessive zeal with which some men - for it is almost always men - hunt down, steal, and hoard birds’ eggs is difficult to understand fo...
Wednesday, May 21, 2008

I am a super-person

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‘I want this to be remembered forever. Maybe I'll even have a follower; after all, I am a super-person, almost God.’ This is one of many...
Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Chester Gillette on death row

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Death Row diaries/blogs are common today and easily accessible on the internet, but such a diary from a century ago is a real find. One writ...
Monday, May 19, 2008

Confidential recycling

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A retired NYPD policeman has been selling his log books on eBay at $30 a lot - thanks to Susan Edelman at the New York Post for this. James...
Friday, May 16, 2008

Smoking, heroin and opium

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The third and final volume of The Smoking Diaries by Simon Gray has just been published in the UK. The Last Cigarette , like its predecesso...
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Thursday, May 15, 2008

Diary clue to sudden death

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Whose body parts are distributed between three major museums in Australia and New Zealand: the heart in the National Museum of Australia, th...
Wednesday, May 14, 2008

The secrets of military coups

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Notable Turkish diarists are few and far between. Indeed, The Diary Junction , with over 500 diarists listed from over 30 countries, does no...
Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Politkovskaya's Russian Diary

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‘[This book] should be dropped from the air in vast quantities throughout the length and breadth of Mother Russia, for all her people to rea...
Monday, May 12, 2008

Prokofiev's literary gifts

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The murder of Rasputin, by coincidence, is one of many and varied incidents written about by the composer Serge Prokofiev in his diaries, th...

Rasputin's diary?

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The Diary of Grigory Rasputin has just been published in Russia, according to Russia InfoCentre . Rasputin, sometimes dubbed the Mad Monk, ...
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