Diaries, Letters & Journals

Helen Garner visits the morgue, and goes cruising on a Russian ship. She sees women giving birth, and gets the sack for teaching her students about...

This is a triumph. A love letter to the ghosts of Edinburgh. I feel its hand upon my shoulder. Sara Sheridan As a writer of fiction, I found myse...

The young naturalist W. N. P. Barbellion described this remarkably candid record of living with multiple sclerosis as 'a study in the nude'. It beg...

Allen Leeper, Oxford undergraduate and future Foreign Office mandarin, wrote regularly to his family in Australia from 1908 until he left universit...

Grow your confidence and embrace self-love with this proactive guide to becoming a stronger, more empowered youLow self-confidence affects us all f...

Roderick OFlaherty (born 1629) was an Irish aristocrat, historian and antiquarian. Here his letters are published with annotation and biographical ...

Dr Kessler, a Jewish attorney from Lwow, Poland, gives an eye-witness account of the Holocaust through the events recorded in his diary between the...

Dr Kessler, a Jewish attorney from Lwow, Poland, gives an eye-witness account of the Holocaust through the events recorded in his diary between the...

Australia's diggers didn't go 'over the top' for King and Country, they did it for their mates and their battalion - extraordinary deeds performed ...

A niece of Jane Austen and a novelist herself, Catherine Hubback was fifty-two years old when she left England for America. She travelled to Califo...

Why did Asquith take Britain to war in 1914? What did educated young men believe their role should be? What was it like to fly over the Somme battl...

'As in a good novel, the people, their feelings and reactions are instantly recognisable and as fresh and immediate today as they were then' GUARDI...

Philip was a visionary like Blake, and he really saw the whole world in a grain of sand. Lawrence FerlinghettiAn inspired consciousness set at full...