Diaries, Letters & Journals

Lord Ashley (later the Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury), the 'Poor Man's Earl', is widely remembered as a leading aristocratic philanthropist whose con...

The ultimate meaning of the Russian Revolution which took place on March 7, 1917, can be best understood through the pages of the Journal of Leo To...

Constance Markievicz, born Constance Gore-Booth, was the first woman to be elected to the House of Commons in December 1918. As a Sinn Fein member,...

Sergeant Albert Simpkin MMs Great War diary is of unusual scope and exceptional interest. Albert was a First World War motorcycle despatch rider at...

Philip Larkin met Monica Jones at University College Leicester in autumn 1946, when they were both twenty-four; he was the newly-appointed assistan...

Translated into English for the first time, the letters collected here bring to life one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century, Ludwig ...

When the stock market crashed in 1929, Benjamin Roth was a young lawyer in Youngstown, Ohio. After he began to grasp the magnitude of what had happ...

My future mother-in-law burst into tears when she heard her son was to marry an actress. Theres still something disturbing, I grant yo...

L.M. Montgomery (1874-1942) had begun keeping a private journal before she turned fifteen. From 1918 onward, she had carefully copied out her entri...

Afforded the kind ofaccess a journalist can only dream of, Andy Bollen gives fansanew story focusing on the real Kurt Cobain not the angst-ridden, ...