The Diary Review

The American diarist Emma Mordecai died 120 years ago today, leaving behind a rare and detailed civilian record of life in the Confederate c...

The English writer and philosopher William Godwin, an early proponent of idealistic liberalism, died 190 years ago today. He is, perhaps, be...

‘We talked over together the general interests of the school . . . He promised to give something and said that he thought that he could get ...

Born 130 years ago today, the Swede Einar Lundborg would become, for a brief moment in 1928, one of the most celebrated aviators in Europe -...

The Galtee Boy, the Irish republican activist  John Sarsfield Casey , was born 180 years ago today. Imprisoned and then deported for his cri...

‘Everyone complains about the scarcity of food supplies, but all are firmly determined to hold out. The distribution of food must be still f...

William Bagshaw Stevens, born 270 years go today, died laughing. But, in his relatively short life, he had been an ineffective headmaster of...

André Michaux, a French botanist and explorer sent to North America in search of new species to replenish the forests of France, was born 28...

Today marks the 320th anniversary of the death of John Evelyn, a contemporary and friend of Samuel Pepys, who described him as a ‘most excel...