The Diary Review

‘ My mind’s still in a whirl. Jack Hamesh was here. [. . .]  We talked until evening and he kissed my hand before he left. No one’s ever kis...

Henry (Hap) Arnold, the only American ever to achieve the five star rank of general in two separate branches of the US military, was born 13...

Constable, part of the Little Brown group, has just published the diary of a young woman - Sarah Stamford - who was working as a BBC secreta...

‘In town there was a poster confirming the shooting of ten people. If by the 4th of the month the bandits aren’t handed in they will shoot t...

‘We brake down 28 superstitious Pictures; and took up 11 popish Inscriptions in Brass; and gave order for digging up the Steps, and taking o...

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

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

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

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