The Diary Review

One of Britain’s greatest prime ministers, William Gladstone, was born 200 years ago today - a bicentenary which doesn’t seem to have attrac...

Today is the 150th anniversary of the death of Thomas Babington Macaulay, politician, writer and historian. He served two shorts terms as a ...

The great American trumpet player, Chet Baker, might have been celebrating his eightieth birthday today had he not been so addicted to drugs...

It is a century and a half today since Henry Edward Fox, the fourth Baron Holland, died. He was a fairly unremarkable aristocrat, and sired ...

Some 250km north of Rome and 70km east of Florence, in Tuscany but not far from the borders with Umbria and Romagna, lies Pieve Santo Stefan...

Three centuries ago to the day, a physician named David Hamilton was treating Queen Anne for gout. He reported in his diary that she was tak...

It is sixty years to the day that the Republic of China (ROC), having been defeated by the Communist Party in the country’s civil war, reloc...

Scott’s diaries to be blogged and twittered - Scott Polar Research Institute A Times man recalls the buying of Hitler’s ‘diaries’ - The Tim...

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...