The Diary Review

It’s one hundred and fifty years since the great American man of letters, Washington Irving, died. He was a prolific writer, and a committed...

‘The record contained in the following pages is a picture of conditions of human existence which I hope and believe have passed away.’ So w...

‘The big cosmological program I shall not live to see,’ Edwin Hubble, born 120 years ago today, told his wife, Grace, near the time of his d...

Tomaž Humar, an extraordinary mountaineer from Slovenia, died earlier this month while climbing Langtang Lirung in the Himalayas. Although h...

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...