The Diary Review
A vast, international and unrivalled collection of diary extracts - from over 1,000 diarists
Saturday, April 26, 2014
Of murder and raptus
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Today marks the 160th anniversary of the death of Lord Cockburn, a popular and much admired Edinburgh judge who, as Scotland’s Solicitor-Gen...
Sunday, April 20, 2014
Newes from Cambridge
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John Rous, an unremarkable parson from Suffolk, was baptised all of 430 years ago today, and is only remembered because of a diary he kept a...
Monday, April 14, 2014
The most barbarous murder
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Sir John Reresby was born 380 years ago this very day. He inherited a baronetcy, and remained loyal to the Crown during the so-called Interr...
Saturday, April 12, 2014
The wonderful echo
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Charles Burney, the much revered music historian and father of the famous diarist, Fanny Burney, died 200 years ago today. Although not know...
Monday, April 7, 2014
Elizabeth Freke’s misfortunes
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‘I was in a most grievous rainy, wet day married without the knowledg or consent of my father or any friend in London.’ This is part of the ...
Wednesday, April 2, 2014
The King’s bathing habits
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Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville was born two hundred and twenty years ago today. In memory of one of the greatest of 19th century political...
Friday, March 28, 2014
George Kennan’s diaries
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‘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...
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