List of the diaries
The diaries can be searched using the Bishopsgate Institute’s on-line catalogue. Click here for access to the Bishshopsgate Institute archive catalgoue.
Creative Diarists
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Diaries and their uses
For the next few weeks we will be exploring - [...]
Love ‘n’ Diaries Part Three
Our spotlight romantic Mr ? writes of himself the following: [...]
Love ‘n’ Diaries Part Two
Our romantic diarist looks for the following in a lady: [...]
Love ‘n’ Diaries
The GDP archive has stacks of diaries that deal with [...]
Thank you to the diarists
Thank you for your pictures and comments on your New [...]
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 [...]