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A vast, international and unrivalled collection of diary extracts - from over 1,000 diarists

Saturday, July 17, 2010

Diary briefs

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Details emerge from Mladic’s secret wartime diary - The New York Times On board HMS Medusa, 1802-1810 - University of Glasgow , BBC Aft...
Thursday, July 15, 2010

A planters life!

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‘I said my prayers and ate milk and pears for breakfast. About 7 o’clock the negro boy that ran away was brought home. My wife against my wi...
Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Sabara on my wall

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In the mid-1980s, I was living in Brazil, in Rio de Janeiro, and exactly a quarter of a century ago today, I had travelled to a small pretty...

The greatest ballet in Europe

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Marius Petipa, one of the most influential ballet masters and choreographers of all time, died a century ago today. Born in France, he spent...
Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Weiser goes to Ohio

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Conrad Weiser, a German immigrant but one of America’s great early Indian interpreters and a key figure in the development of colonial Penns...
Thursday, July 8, 2010

Young Ward’s passion

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‘My spirit has been for almost two months the lowest it has ever been in my life, on account of the profound disappointment in the love whic...
Friday, July 2, 2010

Diary briefs

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Li Peng’s Diary on sale in the US! - Wall Street Journal Diary evidence about homeopathy in cancer death patient - ABC News Livingstone...
Wednesday, June 30, 2010

In darkness and fear

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The Undaunted Women of Nanking: The Wartime Diaries of Minnie Vautrin and Tsen Shui-Fang is being published today in the UK. It tells the s...

Miracle of happiness

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‘The only adorable thing I can imagine is for my Grandmother to put me to bed and bring me a bowl of hot bread and milk, and, standing with ...
Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Peter Pears centenary

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Today is the centenary of Peter Pears’s birth, one of Britain’s great 20th century tenors, and the lifelong partner of the composer Benjamin...

The Highland manners

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‘The family, servants and all, sat round it, and eat, the mistress looking on and waiting. She brought us a piggin of cream, and drank to me...
Monday, June 21, 2010

Diary briefs

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Mussolini said to have hidden diaries secretly - The Daily Telegraph Publication of Li Peng’s diary halted - Wall Street Journal Henry ...
Sunday, June 20, 2010

For the love of Marie

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One of the bravest and most dashing of heroes, the very flesh and blood of 18th century adventures, died two centuries ago today. But Axel v...
Sunday, June 13, 2010

El Senor de las Lettras

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Today is the centenary of the birth of Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, an icon of Spanish literature but one whose novels have never been transl...
Wednesday, June 9, 2010

The Butcher of Beijing

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A diary allegedly written by Li Peng during the Tiananmen protests in Beijing, June 1989, is about to be published in Hong Kong. Li Peng was...
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