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402, 2019

Love ‘n’ Diaries Part Two

By Polly North|2019-01-25T14:57:05+00:00February 4th, 2019|Categories: Collections|Comments Off on Love ‘n’ Diaries Part Two

Our romantic diarist looks for the following in a lady: [...]

2801, 2019

Love ‘n’ Diaries

By Polly North|2019-01-25T14:49:26+00:00January 28th, 2019|Categories: Collections|Comments Off on Love ‘n’ Diaries

The GDP archive has stacks of diaries that deal with [...]

2301, 2019

Thank you to the diarists

By Polly North|2019-01-17T12:59:30+00:00January 23rd, 2019|Categories: Collections|Comments Off on Thank you to the diarists

Thank you for your pictures and comments on your New [...]

2001, 2019

Why diaries? Part Two

By Polly North|2019-01-11T12:42:31+00:00January 20th, 2019|Categories: Collections|Comments Off on Why diaries? Part Two

Diaries are expert at revealing the extraordinary and the [...]

1501, 2019

Why diaries? Part One

By Polly North|2019-01-11T11:55:59+00:00January 15th, 2019|Categories: Collections|Comments Off on Why diaries? Part One

Diaries and diarists capture human experience. Diaries are concrete enquiry [...]

1101, 2019

Did your diary start like this?

By Polly North|2019-01-11T11:49:34+00:00January 11th, 2019|Categories: Collections|Comments Off on Did your diary start like this?

101, 2019

Happy New Year 2019

By Polly North|2019-01-08T15:56:02+00:00January 1st, 2019|Categories: Collections|Comments Off on Happy New Year 2019

Who started a diary on the first of Jan? [...]

2512, 2018

Happy Christmas

By Polly North|2018-12-20T15:48:40+00:00December 25th, 2018|Categories: Collections|Comments Off on Happy Christmas

For all those who might be having the odd 'chat' [...]

2412, 2018

Only silver linings…………

By Polly North|2018-12-20T15:49:13+00:00December 24th, 2018|Categories: Collections|Comments Off on Only silver linings…………

Every cloud has a silver lining...even December's damp clouds mean [...]

2012, 2018

Remarkable

By Polly North|2018-12-20T15:33:40+00:00December 20th, 2018|Categories: Collections|Comments Off on Remarkable

This wonderful collection of diaries is quite remarkable - a [...]

2012, 2018

British Library Event 2019 Spring

By Polly North|2018-12-20T13:10:23+00:00December 20th, 2018|Categories: Collections|Comments Off on British Library Event 2019 Spring

Please click here for more information on our 2019 event [...]

1012, 2018

Art meets Diary

By Polly North|2018-12-06T15:40:28+00:00December 10th, 2018|Categories: Collections|Comments Off on Art meets Diary

Indeed, who doesn’t?

512, 2018

Indeed, who doesn’t?

By Polly North|2018-12-06T15:40:45+00:00December 5th, 2018|Categories: Collections|Comments Off on Indeed, who doesn’t?

June21st 'What young lady, travelling for the first time on [...]

An entry a day keeps the doctor away

3011, 2018

An entry a day keeps the doctor away

By Polly North|2018-11-30T12:37:10+00:00November 30th, 2018|Categories: Collections|Comments Off on An entry a day keeps the doctor away

June 22nd 'I did evydently receive the [...]

1611, 2018

Love, love (or just boys?)

By Polly North|2018-11-16T13:14:17+00:00November 16th, 2018|Categories: Latest News|0 Comments

Diarist: Anonymous Diary Dated: 1978 and 1979 ‘30 July 1978: [...]

911, 2018

All about the almanac (part 2)

By Polly North|2018-11-09T13:06:54+00:00November 9th, 2018|Categories: Latest News|0 Comments

.....By the late sixteenth century, European almanacs became very popular; [...]

811, 2018

Back to Bolivia for November (nearly 200 years ago)

By Polly North|2018-11-08T13:09:43+00:00November 8th, 2018|Categories: Latest News|0 Comments

Diarist: James Bennetts Williams Diary Dated: 1883-87 As we discovered [...]

3110, 2018

All about the almanac….

By Polly North|2018-10-31T10:00:20+00:00October 31st, 2018|Categories: Latest News|0 Comments

Around 1400 BC, Babylonian astronomers inscribed clay tablets with dated [...]

3010, 2018

James B Williams Vols 2 and 3

By Polly North|2018-10-30T09:32:23+00:00October 30th, 2018|Categories: Latest News|0 Comments

So last week we were introduced to the GDP diarist [...]

2510, 2018

Cornwall to Bolivia (Vol 1)

By Polly North|2018-10-25T09:22:02+01:00October 25th, 2018|Categories: Latest News|0 Comments

James Bennetts Williams aged 27 (1883) emigrated to Bolivia to work [...]

1810, 2018

Nautical Themes

By Polly North|2018-11-29T12:35:04+00:00October 18th, 2018|Categories: Collections, Latest News|0 Comments

This month will be devoted to all things shipboard. First [...]

2906, 2018

Trainspotting

By Polly North|2018-06-29T12:18:23+01:00June 29th, 2018|Categories: Latest News|0 Comments

GDP 386 are the diaries of a train spotter. The [...]

2506, 2018

Mine’s a slider

By Polly North|2018-06-25T12:12:51+01:00June 25th, 2018|Categories: Latest News|0 Comments

GDP 385 - spent much of her life fruitfully caring [...]

2106, 2018

The Motorcycle Diaries

By Polly North|2018-06-21T12:12:30+01:00June 21st, 2018|Categories: Latest News|0 Comments

A recent addition to the archive consists of the motorcycle [...]

2305, 2017

Ladies of Letters (and Diaries)

By Polly North|2017-05-23T15:24:49+01:00May 23rd, 2017|Categories: Latest News|0 Comments

List of the diaries