Archive Update

The collection currently contains:  Almost 3000 volumes of manuscript diaries written by more than 130 individuals, running from 1735 to 2013.  Around 2000 volumes of published diaries, including fiction and non-fiction, and including a number of guides and anthologies.

2014-09-29T11:07:01+01:00By |Latest News|

New Beautiful Diary Part 2

Dear Diaroid Lover, The image of the new beautiful diary we have received is only half of it! The diary dates to 1754. It contains a list of remedies, including one, written in ironically faded ink, ‘To Recover the Ink of Old Deeds’: Take five or six galls finely powdered and pat them into a pint of Mountain Wine, & let them stand together three or four days in an appothecary’s [sic] sand heat to digest. Strike the dull part of the writing over with a plain pencil dipd [sic] in the liquor and it will recover them. Just to [...]

2014-09-29T11:06:04+01:00By |Latest News|
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