Diaries, letters and journals

WRITTEN DURING HER TRAVELS IN EUROPE, ASIA, AND AFRICA, TO Persons of Distinction, Men of Letters, &c.

Mary Wollstonecraft was born on 27th April 1759 in Spitalfields, London.

Peggy Ramsay (1908-1991) was the foremost play agent of her time.

A completely fresh insight into the mind of one of the UK's greatest playwrights, the letters between John Osborne and his first wife, actress Pamela Lane, are also a love letter to a now defunct system of repertory theatre, and life in post-war Britain.

Radical activist, thinker, comrade of Walter Rodney, Andaiye was one of the Caribbean's most important political voices.

Johann Georg von Hahn - a nineteenth-century Austrian diplomat and explorer - is generally considered to be the founder of Albanian Studies as a scholarly discipline.

Prague, 1940-1942.

Prague, 1940-1942.

As New Labour's first period of government picks up steam, we find Bernard Donoughue working as a minister at the Ministry of Agriculture, Fishing and Food.

In 1847, seventeen-year-old Miss Ellen Palmer had the world at her feet.

As New Labour's first period of government picks up steam, we find Bernard Donoughue working as a minister at the Ministry of Agriculture, Fishing and Food.

In 1847, seventeen-year-old Miss Ellen Palmer had the world at her feet.

The first ever collection of the letters between Churchill and his mother.

The first collection of Malcolm Guite's widely acclaimed columns on the back page of the Church Times.

Frances Burney was born on June 13th, 1752 in Lynn Regis (now King's Lynn).

Frances Burney was born on June 13th, 1752 in Lynn Regis (now King's Lynn).

Frances Burney was born on June 13th, 1752 in Lynn Regis (now King's Lynn).

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While writings by early modern Quaker women have been discussed and quoted fairly extensively, relatively few of their texts are readily or widely available.

This is a collection of letters written by American naturalist Henry David Thoreau.

"e;Dear Millie, I am writing you this letter in the hope that life has afforded you the opportunity to grow old enough to read it.

‘Wiped out three Nazis in a shallow trench.

‘Wiped out three Nazis in a shallow trench.

‘The infantry is only a few metres ahead of us when suddenly, on the left of our tank, a Russian stands up.

‘The infantry is only a few metres ahead of us when suddenly, on the left of our tank, a Russian stands up.

Carnivores include some of the most impressive, dangerous and mysterious animals in the world.

Carnivores include some of the most impressive, dangerous and mysterious animals in the world.

Born on November 5th 1850 in Johnstown, Wisconsin, Ella Wheeler was the youngest of four children.

Twelve Years A Slave is subtitled Narrative of Solomon Northup, citizen of New York, kidnapped in Washington city in 1841, and rescued in 1853 from a cotton plantation near the Red River in Louisiana.

John Griffith "e;Jack"e; London was born John Griffith Chaney on January 12th, 1876 in San Francisco.

For many of us DH Lawrence was a schoolboy hero.

For many of us DH Lawrence was a schoolboy hero.

For many of us DH Lawrence was a schoolboy hero.

For many of us DH Lawrence was a schoolboy hero.

For more than a decade, Derek Philpott and his son, Dave, have been writing to pop stars from the 1960s to the 90s to take issue with the lyrics of some of their best-known songs.

Craig Allen, a Paratrooper for 29 years, returned to 2 PARA as a reservist and unofficial photographer for the Battlegroup’s dramatic 2008 Tour in Helmand.

John Howard’s name will forever be linked to the highly successful Pegasus Bridge assault by his glider-born company of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry.

Between 1941 and 1945 as many as 70,000 inmates died at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in northwestern Germany.

Sir Joseph Banks was man of science, of affairs, and of letters.

Can you spare five minutes?

Peter Wright has been a dancer, choreographer, teacher, producer and director in the theatre as well as in television for over 70 years.

Three centuries of war.

Three centuries of war.

**From the Sunday Times Bestselling Author**In twenty years behind the till in The Bookshop, Wigtown, Shaun Bythell has met pretty much every kind of customer there is - from the charming, erudite and deep-pocketed to the eccentric, flatulent and possibly larcenous.

Vivienne Westwood began Get A Life, her online diary, in 2010 with an impassioned post about Native American activist Leonard Peltier.

A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Irreverently funny .

The perfect gift for any theatre loverThere has been always as much drama offstage as on at the National Theatre, and much of it is to be found in the letters, telegrams, scribbled notes and colourful postcards of its main players.