The Diary Review

‘The atomic bomb was used yesterday for the first time on the Japs. I must say I feel shocked and ashamed. Nobody knows what the effects of ...

‘I felt more powerfully than ever today what poems people are; not the part of them that speaks, but the mysterious, intricate network of th...

‘The Prospect of Constantinople, when ye behold it from the top of the Channel, at the distance of two Miles, is beyond compare, as being to...

‘I consider this days very successful work which has put me on the knot of several new and interesting products which may have a wide applic...

Ivan Bunin, the first Russian writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, died 70 years ago today. Though admired for his short stories an...

Today marks the 470th anniversary of the birth of Roger Wilbraham, a lawyer by training who held various high posts under Elizabeth I  and J...

The great Italian film director, Federico Fellini, died 30 years ago today. He won four Oscars for best foreign language film, more than any...

‘For a fortnight JH and I have been trimming the fat from this volume, fat being the truth that endangers. The book still seems bloated, for...

‘I walkd by my self after tea finished the French Novel _ then Mr Inchbald and I walkd, he was dull and after we came home we had Words.’ Th...