The Diary Review

‘I want to devote my life to science, and I will, but if necessary, I will forget astronomy for a long time and I will become a fighter.’ Th...

Beethoven, possibly the world’s greatest composer, was baptised - his birth date being unknown - 250 years ago today. Although not a diarist...

‘Dubois nodded proudly. “Ja, Mama, that is the skull. That is Pithecanthropus Erectus .” His mother looked up at him and he saw how much she...

 ‘I don’t want to return to the shuttle, but I don’t want to spend the rest of my life in Dayton, so we’re going to go for broke now. We’re ...

Emily Dickinson, widely considered one of the greatest American poets, was born 190 years ago today. She was reclusive and largely unpublish...

‘Observed a nice looking girl waiting as well as myself so got into conversation with her but was soon interrupted by the arrival of the eng...

‘My paintings are always disasters while I am doing them. It isn’t until I see them later, and someone else likes them, that I can see their...

‘A Menshevik deputy ascended the rostrum and attempted to refute the charges brought against his party, but the other Soviet members interru...

‘I watched Shostie while Lukas and Kabalevsky played a Haydn Symphony 4 hands. He loves music with a kind of innocent joy I have rarely seen...

‘To keep the people from directing their rage at their actual oppressor, rulers in every age have used diversionary tactics to shield their ...