The Diary Review

It is one thousand and seventy years since the death of  Ki no Tsurayuki, a nobleman and poet renowned for his erudition and skills in Chine...

The Australian cricketer Victor Trumper, once called the best batsman in the world, died a century ago today - and he was only in his late 3...

‘Work quickly. Don’t stop for anything but the essential. [. . .] Make the draperies move, don’t let them stop. Keep the flow going.’ This i...

William Whiteway died all of 380 years ago today. He played a significant role in the historic English market town of Dorchester during a pe...

‘[Suu Kyi] came back after a hot trek in the sun to some village or other smelling strongly of cheap scent. It’s usual for enthusiastic ladi...

It is the bicentenary today of the famous Battle of Waterloo , Napoléon Bonaparte’s final defeat, which brought to an end over 20 years of w...

One Rev. John William Horsley was born 170 years ago today. Although not much remembered, he was a social reformer of great character - as m...

‘Am I going against nature in my constant attempt to fill my life with work? Is my mind as rich as in idle days? Is not perhaps the poet’s l...

Thomas Hearne, Oxford scholar and librarian, died all of 280 years ago today. He is highly regarded for his editions of historical works whi...