The Diary Review

Seventy years ago today, Adolf and Eva Hitler - married just 40 hours earlier - committed suicide in the so-called Führerbunker, Berlin - Ad...

In commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the end of the 1984-1985 miners’ strike in the UK, the Mirror , a daily newspaper, recently publ...

Eldon Chester’s farm life diary - Fort Madison Daily Democrat Ronnie Wood to publish teen diaries - The Guardian , NME John Dunbar’s Egy...

Seventy years ago today Kim Malthe-Bruun, a brave young Dane, only 21 years of age, was executed by the Nazis for being involved with the Da...

‘I have been ill now and in bed for over two weeks. That is why I have written nothing. And the new doctor gave me M. & B. tablets which...

The intriguing Polish writer Leopold Tyrmand died 30 years ago today. His youthful adult life was marked by the turmoil of the Second World ...

‘The day came at last as all days must come if one waits long enough. The day that ended my old & commenced my new life - a change for t...

‘Every ten minutes or so a constable enters my cell, looks curiously at my scribblings and asks me what I am writing. I say, “A children’s s...

Malcolm X, one of the US’s most influential black activists, was assassinated half a century ago today. He was not yet 40. Having come from ...

‘His daily conduct forced a conviction upon my alarmed and tortured mind, that his designs were the most vile.’ This is from an astonishing ...