The Diary Review

The Orwell Prize website has cleared up the mystery it created when teasing readers with a story about an Orwell diary blog. According to ti...

From tomorrow (Wednesday 30 July), the diaries of George Orwell, the famous British author of Nineteen   Eighty-Four and Animal Farm , will...

An auction of William Gladstone’s books at the weekend raised far more for the sellers than expected, partly because a single lot of origina...

According to a detail in her diary, Princess Mary, wife of the Prince of Wales, soon to be King George V, watched the start of the Olympics ...

Lord Hunt of Tanworth has just died. Lord who? Tam Dalyell starts his obituary of Lord Hunt for The Independent by remarking that, alas, pe...

Ron Arad, an Israeli Air Force navigator, was shot down over Lebanon in 1986 and captured by Amal, a Shia militia. For more than 20 years, I...

Today is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Henry Edward Manning, one of the most influential Roman Catholic figures in England during th...

The Palestinian campaigner, Jaweed Al Ghussein, has just died; it would have been his 78th birthday this Friday. Persecuted by the Palestini...

Animal Planet, a US TV company, announced last week that it is to broadcast a new eight-part series called The Grizzly Man Diaries . The pro...

Kafka - author of The Trial and The Castle - is always good for a story, and so much the better if it’s a Kafkaesque one. The Guardian ha...

The Bolivian government has just announced its intention to publish a fascimile edition of Ernesto Che Guevara’s handwritten diaries. They c...

A short post about Blood and Judd, because they’re such great names and they rhyme. A history student, Steven St Onge (not a bad name in its...

I love books and news stories about secret diaries. There’s one today, and there’s going to be another in three weeks. The diaries may have ...

‘Even to this day the diary has a slight aroma of cocoa,’ says Steve Dickinson about a diary kept by his uncle Robert Dickinson while a pris...

This week, Boydell Press is due to publish, for the first time, the diaries of John Longe, a suffolk vicar, described as an affluent and clu...

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...