The Diary Review

Abel J Herzberg, a Dutch lawyer in Amsterdam, was arrested by the Nazis in 1943 and, by January 1944, was incarcerated in the Bergen-Belsen ...

It’s Horatio Nelson’s birthday. One of Britain’s greatest heroes was born 250 years ago today on 29 September 1758. He is not famed for his ...

John Churton Collins, a writer and literary critic at the turn of the last century, died 100 years ago in mysterious circumstances. However,...

Today is the 100th anniversary of the independent state of Bulgaria (according to the old style Julian calendar) which is as good an excuse ...

Mika Waltari, one of Finland’s most widely known and translated writers, was born a hundred years ago today. He became best known for his hi...

A second volume of Bernard Donoughue’s Downing Street diaries is published today. As an adviser to Harold Wilson and then James Callaghan, D...

A very early - possibly the earliest - reference to baseball has been found in an English diary, written by William Bray, thus supporting th...

The Great Northern War, fought between Sweden and Russia for control of the Baltic Sea, reached a turning point 300 years ago today, when th...

Cesare Pavese was born a hundred years ago today, on 9 September 1908. He is considered one of Italy’s most important writers, but he was al...

He died 200 years ago, did John Home. He is a largely forgotten poet and playwright from the 18th century, but one who, having initially str...

I’ve been writing three or four articles a week since starting The Diary Junction Blog in May, but I haven’t once mentioned the greatest dia...

Edward Walter Hamilton, or Eddy as he was always known, died one hundred years ago today. He was considered a pillar of the establishment, s...

Is art any use? Is anything any use? So asked one of Britain’s most famous potters, Bernard Leach, in his diary exactly one hundred years ag...

A major World War II diary is about to be published for the first time. It chronicles the activities of General Courtney Hodges and the Fir...

Charles Wesley, one of Britain’s greatest hymn writers and a founder of Methodism, was plagued by a sex scandal while staying in the new Ame...