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Friday, August 27, 2010

Diary briefs

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Lawrence of Arabia’s secret ‘X-flights’ revealed in diary - The Daily Telegraph Bath historian to research Elizabeth Wynne diaries - BBC Nu...
Thursday, August 26, 2010

Mother Teresa’s doubts

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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 ...
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Sunday, August 22, 2010

A dose of illness

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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...
Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Seventy wax matches

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Wilfrid Scawen Blunt was born 170 years ago today. A famous breeder of Arab horses, a notorious womaniser, and a fierce anti-imperialist, he...
Sunday, August 8, 2010

Of Edinburgh and Glasgow

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‘Edinburgh is by no means a despicable town.’ So thought Elizabeth Percy, Duchess of Northumberland, according to her diary entry 250 years ...
Saturday, August 7, 2010

Earthquakes in Florence

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Exactly half a millennium ago today, Florence suffered two earthquakes in the morning, and another in the afternoon; two more came the next ...
Friday, August 6, 2010

Dr Fuller’s infusion

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