The Diary Review

‘What bothers me is a total separation of personal life and intellectual life, so that when I tend to personal affairs, even to the children...

I’m not a football (soccer) fan as such, but I was brought up to support the great London club, Arsenal. My stepfather, Sasha, would take me...

After suffering a stroke in 2012, dear old Tony Benn - a ‘national radical treasure’ according to  The Guardian , but ‘merciless towards col...

‘I didn’t have one cent to buy bread. So I washed three bottles and traded them to Arnaldo. He kept the bottles and gave me bread. Then I we...

As part of its First World War centenary programme, the UK government’s National Archives has just made available digital copies of nearly 4...

George Percival Scriven, a soldier who served in the US army for over 40 years rising to the rank of brigadier general, was born 160 years a...

Richard Lander, a low born lad from Cornwall who started his working life at 13 as a servant but progressed to lead expeditions in West Afri...

Isaac Ambrose, a 17th century Presbyterian priest who died 350 years ago today, was a great believer in the value of keeping a diary in orde...

Today marks Lord Dacre’s centenary. Better remembered as Hugh Trevor-Roper, he was one of Britain’s leading historians and intellectual cele...