The Diary Review

Lady Mary Coke, a friend of the politician and historian, Horace Walpole, died two centuries ago today. She seems to have been a society wom...

Today marks 360 years since the birth of the German doctor and naturalist, Engelbert Kaempfer. His fame rests on two books, both largely abo...

Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, the patriarch of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, was born in Germany three centuries ago today. A fer...

It is thirty years to the day that Sir Alan, or Tommy, Lascelles died. He served as a royal courtier for most of his professional life, risi...

Lord Longford, the politician and would-be social reformer, died a decade ago today. For much of his later life, he seemed out of sync with ...

Today marks the 330th anniversary of the death of young Sir Thomas Isham, the third to hold the Isham Baronetcy title. As a teenager, his fa...

Today marks the centenary of Hiram Bingham’s discovery of Machu Picchu, an Inca citadel in Peru, now one of the world’s most famous tourist ...

Today marks the 350th anniversary of the birth of Pierre Le Moyne d’Iberville, one of Canada’s great soldiers and explorers, though at the t...

Armed robber nabbed by his own diary entry - The Mirror More diaries from Alastair Campbell - The Guardian , Amazon More of Mengele’s diarie...

Today marks the 30th anniversary of the death of Robert Lindsay Mackay, an infantry soldier in the First World War, present at the famous ba...

Today marks 150 years since the death of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, a popular poet in her time, who was married to Robert Browning, another...

New Che Guevara diary published in Cuba (see also Che’s last days ) - BBC , The Guardian Arrested Maoist’s diary reveals top secrets - The T...

One hundred years ago today, the British people were celebrating the coronation of King George V and his wife Queen Mary. Both George and Ma...

Goose Lane Editions, a Canadian publishing company founded in 1954 and said to be one of the country’s most exciting showcases of home-grown...

Alfred Domett, a literary man who emigrated to New Zealand and became its prime minister for a short time, was born two centuries ago today....