The Diary Review

‘I want to write a poem about the crimes of war, the crimes that have strangled to death millions of pure and bright loves, strangled to dea...

‘I saw a Japanese soldier lying completely naked on a young girl, who was crying hysterically. I yelled at this swine, in any language it wo...

Mary Berry, a celebrated literary figure in 19th century London, died 160 years ago today, a few months after the death of Agnes, her sister...

University of Nebraska Press has just published The Ojibwe Journals of Edmund F. Ely . The diary is said to provide an ‘unprecedented insigh...

Today, Faber and Faber is publishing the third and last volume of the diaries of Sergei Prokofiev, one of the 20th century’s most celebrated...

Files newly-released by the UK’s security services (MI5) to The National Archives include the diaries of Guy Liddell from the post-war perio...

‘I bought Elizabeth the jet plane we flew in yesterday. It costs, brand new, $960,000. She was not displeased.’ This is the actor Richard Bu...

Marina Tsvetaeva was born 120 years ago today. She struggled through much poverty in her life - indeed a daughter died of starvation - and...

Elizabeth Simcoe was born 250 years ago today (or thereabouts!). She spent most of her life in Devon, but for five years lived in British co...

Died 220 years ago did August Gottlieb Spangenberg, one of the stalwarts of the Moravian Church in the 18th century, and a key figure in the...