The Diary Review

André Michaux, a French botanist and explorer sent to North America in search of new species to replenish the forests of France, was born 27...

Had he lived, Robin Cook, a British Labour party politician who served as Foreign Secretary under Tony Blair, would have reached three score...

‘Each word is a wish or a curse. One must be careful not to make words once one has acknowledged the power of the living word. The artist’s ...

‘Married men are paid by the keep of a cow, a house, potatoe & flax ground, with a certain yearly sum in money. At one period of the war...

He does not follow a literary impulse; he does not write to please or to delight. He has been compelled to write by his thirst for truth, hi...

Today marks the 280th anniversary of the birth of Ralph Jackson, a North Yorkshire squire, but who, as a teenager, had been apprenticed as a...

‘Went over from High Elms with Lubbock, Huxley and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, to call on Darwin [. . .] As we returned, Huxley express...

Philip Henslowe, one of the great theatre impresarios of the Elizabethan period, died four centuries ago today. It is thanks to an accounts ...

’I never knew a man of a more universal and generous spirit, with so much modesty, prudence, and piety.’ This is the diarist John Evelyn wri...