The Diary Review

Today is the centenary of the birth of Amrita Sher-Gil, one of the Indian’s most important 20th century painters with an international reput...

The legendary Gordon of Khartoum was born 180 years ago today. Though popular with the British public for his exploits in China and Sudan, h...

Hugh Gaitskell, sometimes dubbed the best Prime Minister the UK never had, died 50 years ago today. For about a decade, and long before it w...

Swami Vivekananda, an Indian monk credited with raising the profile of Hinduism on the world stage and introducing yoga to the West, was bor...

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...