The Diary Review

Ralph Josselin - an Essex vicar, teacher and farmer - died 340 years ago this month. Though not particularly familiar as a historical name, ...

‘This evening I observed a procession of several hundred people carrying paper lanterns; and, when I asked the reason, I was told that it wa...

Today marks the 170th anniversary of the death of Colonel Peter Hawker. A military man by profession, his main love was hunting, and, somewh...

‘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...