The Diary Review

Bret Harte, an American writer best remembered for his prose, particularly short stories about the Californian gold rush, and satirical poet...

The great Spanish poet and playwright Federico García Lorca was assassinated 80 years ago today by right wing military forces at the start o...

John Flamsteed, the first ever Astronomer Royal who catalogued hundreds of stars and laid the foundation stone of the Royal Greenwich Observ...

‘[In] literary articles in journals edited by marxists the concept of decadence is appearing more and more frequently of late. i discover th...

Roger Casement - an Irish-born British diplomat, human rights activist, and, ultimately, an Irish nationalist - was executed for treason exa...

James Melville, a teacher and protestant activist, was born all of 460 years ago today. He was the son of a Scottish minister, and nephew to...

Diary of a pyramid builder! - Mail Online Battlefield Surgeon - University Press of Kentucky , The Daily Beast Abolitionist’s diary goe...

‘The Emperor blubber itself has a very delicate flavour. As a treat this morning Campbell gave us each a small strip of Emperor’s breast don...

Today marks the 130the anniversary of the birth of Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr., who led American soldiers and marines in the Battle of Okinaw...

‘I feel as if a lovely delicate child, tender and humorous, had been knocked down by a truck and lay dying.’ This is the US playwright Cliff...