Thursday, April 21, 2016

From real to fantastical

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Today marks the bicentenary of the birth of Charlotte Brontë. Although she was the most prolific of three sisters, all writers, she is remem...
Monday, April 11, 2016

Gouty old gentlemen

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‘The hippos were delightful. They seemed so aristocratic, like gouty old gentlemen, puffing and blowing and yawning, as though everything bo...
Sunday, April 10, 2016

Waugh’s appalling diaries

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Evelyn Waugh, author of such famous novels as Brideshead Revisited , Scoop , and Decline and Fall , died 50 years ago today. He was a commit...
Thursday, April 7, 2016

William Godwin’s diary

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The English writer and philosopher William Godwin, an early proponent of idealistic liberalism, died 180 years ago today. He is, perhaps, be...
Thursday, March 31, 2016

Nature of the diarist

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‘What a diary must preserve - the attitudes and nature of the diarist. Therefore, all excision, amendment, clarification, cleaning; one must...

Worse by training

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Roger Black, the mid-distance British runner who was internationally successful in the 1980s and 1990s, is 50 years old today. He must keep ...
Monday, March 28, 2016

Diary briefs

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Biteback wins rights to Campbell diaries - Iain Dale Algerian Diary - West Virginia University Press , Star Tribune Diary of a company ...
Thursday, March 24, 2016

Lost behind my camera

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‘ I face the fact that I find myself really happy only when I am lost behind my camera or locked in my dark-room. So today I became happy fo...
Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Jailed for making soap

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‘A lady friend of mine got three weeks in jail for making her own soap, an article monopolized, but not supplied, by the Soviets and much mi...