The Diary Review

The diaries of Claretta Petacci, Mussolini’s mistress, to be published - Corriere Della Sera ; The Daily Mail , AFP The Koda diaries: an Ind...

The handwritten diaries of the Welsh journalist Gareth Jones have just been put on display at the Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge. ...

Good extracts from three WWII diaries: Robert Uhrig, aircraft engineer ( Dayton Daily News ); Tom Holcomb’s life on a destroyer ( The Charle...

The first poppy? - found in Len Smith’s newly-published war diary - The Independent Bruce Springsteen ‘to publish diaries’ - Digitalspy Diar...

The Berlin Wall came down 20 years ago today - on 9 November 1989 - at least metaphorically, if not physically. A day later, Gorbachev’s For...

‘England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cas...

‘So much in my past that I hate to evoke. Short of violence, I have been capable of every sin, every misdemeanour, every crime. With horror ...

A new collection of Benjamin Britten’s diaries are being published today by Faber and Faber. They portray, according to the publisher, an ‘i...

‘I will tell you what kind of a diary you will never wish to burn. Get a good sized, substantially bound blank-book and record in it simply ...

Otto Rank, a Viennese psychoanalyst who studied with Freud for many years, died 70 years ago today. He is remembered for theorising that som...

Gurdjieff, one of the last century’s most enigmatic and idiosyncratic spiritual leaders, died 60 years ago today, yet his Fourth Way is stil...

Itō Hirobumi, a 19th century Japanese statesmen who played a crucial role in building modern Japan, and became its first prime minister, wa...

George B McClellan. According to some he is among the most controversial of figures in American military history. And now Louisiana State Un...

‘The town is stunned by the news that The Home Savings and Loan Co. has suspended payments and would demand 60 days notice of withdrawals. T...