The Diary Review

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...

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...

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

‘ 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...