Over the past few months, we have been posting weekly entries from diaries in the collection. As a treat we’ve assembled a list of all the excerpts.

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The date for each entry e.g 2 December 1942 is a link to a post. Click on the date to read the post.

2 December 1942 – The Bicycle Thieves.

5 December 1953 – Party party!

15 December and 29 December 1927 – Cold weather and hot politics.

20 December 1851 – How my wife gave birth to our daughter and still had time to mend my drawers.

3 January 1958 – Coming of age in style.

10 January 1907 – Closing the diary on an old life.

30 January 1944 – A laconic record of a proposal.

2 February 1861 – Shoes and ships and sealing wax and cabbages and kings…

12 February 1853 – War, sickness, and tragedy.

24 February 1957 – Sudden death.

2 March 1905 – A beautiful paper on suffering.

12 March 1956 – Spending the night in a haunted house.

21 March 1735 – Sin and folly in the City of London.

20 April 1861 – The fly-away carriage.

28 April 1950 – Politics and palmistry.

July 1949 – A mother reflects on her children growing up.

And finally, a diarist from the Second World War on why diaries are so great.