The Diary Review

Margaret Hoby died all of 380 years ago today. She married three times, kept a rich household, and was a very religious person. There is not...

‘The craft of the painter is the most difficult of all and it takes longest to learn. Like composing, painting requires erudition, but it al...

The British Library has just put on display - in the Sir John Ritblat Treasures’ Gallery - one of only three journals kept by the great Angl...

Happy Birthday Cees Nooteboom, eighty today. A noted Dutch novelist, Nooteboom has won various awards, not least the prestigious Prijs der N...

The diaries of Field Marshal Douglas Haig and of Dorothy Wordsworth have just been added to the UK Memory of the World Register, a Unesco in...

‘When I say something it immediately and finally loses its importance, when I write it down it loses it too, but sometimes gains a new one.’...

‘I became totally lost in my meditations as I tried to imagine the American army in its wretched condition, such as we had often encountered...

‘Today is my last chance to chase flies away from his sleeping body. Thus the day ended. From the basin of water by his pillow, all I could ...

Today marks the bicentenary of Richard Wagner’s birth. One of the greatest of all composers, he lived a life of much movement and constant f...

Today marks the 100th anniversary of the death of Apolinario Mabini, a Philippine revolutionary, who wrote the country’s first constitution ...