The Diary Review

Audrey Hepburn’s secret past - Goodknight Books , Daily Mirror , Daily Mail Renia Spiegel’s holocaust diary - Smithsonian Diaries of Bok...

Walter Raleigh, one of the most colourful characters in British history and a favourite of Queen Elizabeth I, died 400 years ago today - exe...

Today marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Andrew Peterson, a Swedish farmer who, as a young man, emigrated to North America, and s...

‘So ended this anxious, joyful, victorious day. Humankind will never forget the day of April 12, 1961, and the name of Gagarin will forever ...

Exactly 40 years ago today, the Polish archbishop Karol Józef Wojtyła became Pope John Paul II, the first non Italian pope in more than four...

The life of the Irish writer and activist Rosamond Jacob, born 130 years ago today, ‘was galvanised at all times by political and feminist d...

‘We had great fun. C. gave me a beautiful set of Barrie’s works for a birthday present. It is sweet of him, he was so keen about it, & i...

‘Today I had to save some one from committing suicide by jumping from the top of the Woolworth Building, forty-third floor (in “Dolly of the...

August Möbius, an important German mathematician, died 150 years ago today. Most students who have studied maths will recognise his name, la...

‘The Japanese are really conservative and anything a little different is an indication of radicalism. They will have to get used to changes,...