The Diary Review

Lawrence of Arabia’s secret ‘X-flights’ revealed in diary - The Daily Telegraph Bath historian to research Elizabeth Wynne diaries - BBC Nu...

Mother Teresa, the famous nun who tended the poor and sick in Kolkata, was born 100 years ago today. She was not known as a diarist but, in ...

Today marks twenty years since the death of one Britain’s strangest murderers, Graham Young, a man so obsessed with poisons that he killed a...

Wilfrid Scawen Blunt was born 170 years ago today. A famous breeder of Arab horses, a notorious womaniser, and a fierce anti-imperialist, he...

‘Edinburgh is by no means a despicable town.’ So thought Elizabeth Percy, Duchess of Northumberland, according to her diary entry 250 years ...

Exactly half a millennium ago today, Florence suffered two earthquakes in the morning, and another in the afternoon; two more came the next ...

Three centuries ago today, a country lawyer called Timothy Burrell, began taking a new system of ‘bitter infusion and stomachie wine’. A mon...

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

‘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...

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...

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

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

‘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...

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

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...