The Diary Review

‘I think some critics are uncomfortable with me because they have never been able to put me into a nice little slot. They haven’t been able ...

Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Winchester and a force for Anglo-Catholocism in the mid-19th century, died 150 years ago today. His detailed d...

Joshua Reynolds, one of the most important 18th century British painters and a founder of the Royal Academy of Arts, was born three centurie...

It is 30 years since Dan Eldon - a bright young star of photojournalism - was killed aged only 22 covering events in Somalia that presaged t...

‘The lordes of the counsel sat at Gildhaul in London, where in the presence of a thousand peple they declared to the maire and bretherne the...

’The Germans play their game cleverly: treason on all sides. Why is it that in no other people drawn into the war is there so much treason a...

‘Audience of the King [Edward VII], . . [He] kept me for about twenty minutes, talking about Japan, the Garter mission, and gardens, such as...

It is 30 years since the death of William Golding, the great British writer, author of Lord of the Flies . A large literary archive containi...

‘The tombs and graves of people murdered in martyrdom are ever increasing all over the country. Every village and town, every forest abounds...