The Diary Review

Not long after his 50th birthday, in 1974, George Bush senior went to China to take up a diplomatic position. On the way there, he began dic...

Tonight (23 June) at 9pm the UK broadcaster, Channel 4, is screening the final part of its Victorian Passions documentary season. This epis...

Saturday 21 June 1908, one hundred years ago today, 200,000-300,000 supporters of the women’s suffragette movement converged on Hyde Park, L...

Walt Whitman is best known as one of America’s greatest poets, and is sometimes dubbed the father of free verse (see Wikipedia ). He also ke...

Virago Press has just re-published, in the UK, the Brazilian diary of a young girl from the mid-1890s - The Diary of Helena Morley - but it...

More than five years ago, in March 2003, Rachel Corrie, a young American, was killed in Gaza while trying to obstruct an Israeli army bulldo...

‘I have continued to note down all these trifling details of my life, even though I cannot aspire to having left posterity anything worth re...

Paul Coelho is not an author I’ve read, or know anything about, but I'm aware of his fame and immense readership around the world. Howev...

Yesterday, Sunday 8 June, was Slingsby Day, according to the Slingsbys website . It was the 350th anniversary of the death by execution of S...

An intriguing story about how a diary revealed plans for two military coups in Turkey ( blog 14 May ) has resurfaced in the Turkish newspap...

It is a hundred years today since the birth of Edgar Vernon Christian (6 June 1908), a British teenager who followed his dream (and possibly...

Some 25 years after the death of Dorothy Day, her diaries have been published in the US by Marquette University Press. Marquette says Day ‘i...

Today, 3 June, is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America during the American ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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...

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...

‘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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

‘[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...

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

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