The Diary Review

‘The  sea may be open both above and below, and even if open off-shore, may never release this ship from her present prison  until every mat...

‘The minister of education summoned me for a talk. I arrived at 1 o’clock. “The matter of your appointment to the Press Committee,” the mini...

‘Think how the whole world wd be changed for me if I could get on with this novel, even though at no higher level than the present. I see th...

Deolinda Rodríguez de Almeida, Mother of the (Angolan) Revolution, was born 80 years ago today. She was a gifted individual, a poet and tran...

Today is the double centenary of the birth of John Ruskin, one of the greatest art and social commentators of the Victorian period in Britai...

‘When they came after the tiger, throwing at it hand grenades, firing blank cartridges, and so forth, in order to move it and prevent it cha...

‘Taking full advantage of the downward slope and a lack of traffic, I push Mule along at a good clip. I figure I’ve now broken the speed law...

‘Why did I decide to start a diary today? Has something important happened? Have I discovered that my friends are keeping diaries of their o...

‘Today may be epoch marking in the history of the World. The Peace Conference opened its sessions in Paris with the representatives of the c...

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, considered by some to be the father of anarchism, was born 210 years ago today. He came from humble, rural origins, ...