The Diary Review

Happy birthday Ken Wilber, 60 today. Author of several books mostly published by Shambhala - including A Brief History of Everything  and A ...

Jacob Roggeveen, the Dutch explorer credited with discovering Easter Island, was baptised exactly 350 years ago tomorrow, and died 280 years...

Christopher Hibbert, a prolific and popular historian and writer, died last month. He wrote many biographies on a wide range of subjects, fr...

Admiral Sir George Rooke, an English naval commander of some importance, died three centuries ago today. He is remembered particularly for d...

Jeremiah Dixon died 230 years ago today. Although he lived and died in the north of England, his name is much better remembered in the Unite...

David Garrick, probably the most important English actor and drama producer of the 18th century, died 220 years ago today. He also penned pl...

The British soldier and general, Sir John Moore, died 200 years ago today, hit by a cannonball at the important Battle of La Coruña, Spain, ...

Two diaries of Americans in Germany before and during the Second World War have just been published by US university presses. One is by Abra...

The discovery of the Cocos (or Keeling) Islands in the Indian Ocean 400 years ago is generally attributed to William Keeling, a British sea ...

Naomi Mitchison, a prolific Scottish writer and activist, died ten years ago today aged 101. She wrote almost as many books as she lived yea...

‘The cafe routine. After work, or trying to write or paint, you come to a cafe looking for people you know. Preferably with someone, or at l...

Hanazono, the 95th emperor of Japan, began his reign 700 years ago today (according to Wikipedia’s 28 December listing). However, after onl...

Emily Brontë, author of Wuthering Heights  one of the classics of British 19th century literature, died 160 years ago today aged only 30. Th...

Mary Leadbeater, an Irish poet and diarist, was born 250 years ago this month. Her diary, published as The Annals of Ballitore , provides a ...