List of the diaries
‘Please click the PDF icon to access a list of the diaries cared for at the Great Diary Project.’
Why diaries? Part Two
Diaries are expert at revealing the extraordinary and the [...]
Why diaries? Part One
Diaries and diarists capture human experience. Diaries are concrete enquiry [...]
Happy New Year 2019
Who started a diary on the first of Jan? [...]
Happy Christmas
For all those who might be having the odd 'chat' [...]
Only silver linings…………
Every cloud has a silver lining...even December's damp clouds mean [...]
Remarkable
This wonderful collection of diaries is quite remarkable - a [...]
British Library Event 2019 Spring
Please click here for more information on our 2019 event [...]
Indeed, who doesn’t?
June21st 'What young lady, travelling for the first time on [...]
An entry a day keeps the doctor away
June 22nd 'I did evydently receive the [...]
Love, love (or just boys?)
Diarist: Anonymous Diary Dated: 1978 and 1979 ‘30 July 1978: [...]
All about the almanac (part 2)
.....By the late sixteenth century, European almanacs became very popular; [...]
Back to Bolivia for November (nearly 200 years ago)
Diarist: James Bennetts Williams Diary Dated: 1883-87 As we discovered [...]
All about the almanac….
Around 1400 BC, Babylonian astronomers inscribed clay tablets with dated [...]
James B Williams Vols 2 and 3
So last week we were introduced to the GDP diarist [...]
Cornwall to Bolivia (Vol 1)
James Bennetts Williams aged 27 (1883) emigrated to Bolivia to work [...]
Nautical Themes
This month will be devoted to all things shipboard. First [...]
Trainspotting
GDP 386 are the diaries of a train spotter. The [...]
Mine’s a slider
GDP 385 - spent much of her life fruitfully caring [...]
The Motorcycle Diaries
A recent addition to the archive consists of the motorcycle [...]