The Diary Review

‘I will be what I will be - and I am now what I am. Here is where I will devote my energy. My power is with me, not with tomorrow.’ So wrote...

‘This is the second day when I have been indolent and failed to carry out all that I had set myself. Why so? I do not know. However, I must ...

Eric Gill, one of the great British artist-craftsmen of the 20th century, died 70 years ago today. Much revered in his lifetime and afterwar...

The First World War diaries of Ernst Jünger, a German soldier who became a revered literary figure, have just been published for the first t...

‘They screamed and shouted, begging us not to kill them because they had family and kids back home. So what? As if, by contrast, we’d come f...

Tommy’s Peace , the second volume of diaries written by Thomas Cairns Livingstone, a Glasgow clerk in the first decades of the 20th century,...

It’s sixty years to the day since the death of the great Irish playwright and social commentator, George Bernard Shaw, often called just GBS...

King Chulalongkorn also known as Rama V, one of Thailand’s greatest rulers and reformers, died 100 years ago today. For much of his reign, a...

Julia Ward Howe died a century ago today. Little remembered, she was well known in her lifetime as a writer and social campaigner, particula...

It is 444 years to the day since the birth of Richard Boyle, the First and ‘Great’ Earl of Cork, a British entrepreneur and politician who m...

Today is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Ash Windham, a British soldier who distinguished himself in Crimea, served in India, ...

Jimmy Carter’s White House Diary - Macmillan , The New York Times , Marilyn Monroe’s Fragments - Macmillan , The Guardian Lieutenant W...

Elizabeth Gaskell, a popular writer of socially realistic novels and ghostly short stories, was born 200 years today. For a while, before be...