The Diary Review

‘At the Crown, Sir Christopher told of killing the wormes with burnt oyle (elsewhere mentiond) and of curing his Lady of a thrush by hanging...

It is 150 years today since the death of George Templeton Strong, a New York lawyer remembered for his remarkable diary, which provides a ne...

‘The rain here is absolute, magnificent, and frightening. To call this rain bad weather is as inappropriate as to call scorching sunshine fi...

‘I am startled to find that on the last page of my diary for 1980 I myself wrote: “There will be a nuclear war in the next decade.” And then...

‘Today is my birthday and it’s the first one I ever spent on a train. Arrived Chicago at 1pm. Had a three-hour layover then caught the 4pm t...

It is one thousand and eighty years since the death of Ki no Tsurayuki, a nobleman and poet renowned for his erudition and skills in Chinese...

‘[Suu Kyi] came back after a hot trek in the sun to some village or other smelling strongly of cheap scent. It’s usual for enthusiastic ladi...

‘This morning there comes a dispatch from Chattanooga stating that the enemy had taken Fort Donelson. Generals Pillow, Floyd, Buckner with t...

One Rev. John William Horsley was born 170 years ago today. Although not much remembered, he was a social reformer of great character - as m...