The Diary Review

Lawrence Durrell, the author of The Alexandria Quartet and several highly-respected travel books on Greece, was born a century ago today. H...

Today is the 160th anniversary of the death of Thomas Moore, the great Irish poet and singer. Much entranced by society, he became a fixture...

The remarkable diaries of Beatrice Webb, the great social reformer and co-founder of The London School of Economics, have been made fully an...

Alexander Hamilton Stephens was born two centuries ago today. Despite a difficult childhood in which he lost both his parents, he went on to...

Today is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens, the great and popular Victorian novelist, author of famous works such as Gre...

John Baker, a barrister who lived much of his life in the West Indies, was born 300 years ago today. He kept a diary which is full of ‘small...

Rapper to release diaries he wrote in jail - BBC Gentleman’s watercolour diaries auctioned - Mail Online The Sex Diaries Project - The Dail...

Edith Wharton, American writer of high society novels, was born a century and a half ago today. Most famous, perhaps, for writing Ethan From...

Today is the 80th anniversary of the birth of Henri Jozef Machiel Nouwen, a Dutch-born Catholic priest who worked as an author documenting h...

One hundred and seventy five years ago today, a household servant called William Tayler was complaining to his diary - started just days ear...

New York Diaries - Random House , The Atlantic , Amazon Police kept Eddie Gilfoyle’s wife’s diaries hidden - BBC , Daily Mail Edinburgh sch...

One hundred years ago today, the Norwegian Roald Amundsen and four others in his team were the first explorers to reach the South Pole. A Br...

Viking, part of the Penguin group, has just published the diaries of Rodney Foster, who served in the Home Guard during the Second World War...