The Diary Review

To complete a trilogy of articles in December about British antiquarians, today marks the 180th anniversary of the death of the long-lived W...

After yesterday’s William Cole anniversary, today is the 380th anniversary of the birth of another English antiquarian - Anthony Wood. Altho...

William Cole, an English clergyman and antiquarian best remembered for his long friendship with Horace Walpole, passed away 230 years ago to...

‘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...