The tales embrace the mundane and the seismic, from being dumped by a boyfriend before the school prom to the sudden death of a parent. The tone ranges from cheesy to heartbreaking. The ...

TWO OF THE most entertaining British political diarists of recent times, Gyles Brandreth and Alan Clark, both Conservative MPs, once sat down in the House of Commons tearoom to draw up a list of ...

In this series of essays we explore five diarists of the past through the lens of the present. In these extraordinary times, when the shift between the domestic and the out-of-reach wider world is ...

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Sarah Gristwood - Author, Secret Voices: A Year of Women’s Diaries Some of the women diarists featured in the new anthology. Top row, left to right: Ada Blackjack, Anne Clifford, Florence ...

In honour of Valentine’s Day, we asked some of the “Diarists” who have previously shared their dating stories with us — whether they’re still actively dating, have basically given up or ...

Although their reasons for writing varied, many diarists—like the anonymous writer from Lodz—viewed their words as a denunciation, a way to hold the Germans and their collaborators accountable ...

A diary, Nina Siegal writes, represents a “first draft of memory.” Shaped by circumstances, ideology and intent, it remains distinctive from later testimonies in its immediacy and inability to ...