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.
The Atlantic – an article in The Atlantic celebrates The Great Diary Project at Bishopsgate Institute
The Transcendent Power of Reading Diaries - The Atlantic
Covid-19 Diaries of Human Truth
A number of Covid-19 centric diaries have made their way [...]
London and its restaurants 1874-1950
An incredible deposit has brought with it a large amount [...]
Diaries and Silence
Published this month and edited by two esteemed archivists, Michael [...]
It is still not as easy as it might be…. part 2
18/03/1945 I have applied to the Red Cross to go [...]
Love is not always easy…it was a rocky road for this war-time diarist
31/12/1944 [After a few days with her boyfriend - and [...]
Zoom Diary Event 1.12.2020
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Question No 3?
‘[e]xperience is the only thing we share equally, and everyone [...]
Question No 2?
‘[w]e know perfectly well that life certainly isn’t a story, [...]
Imagine all the diaries not written….
Unwritten diaries...imagine... The diary of a newborn. The diary of [...]
Coronavirus and diaries
Many of our diarists, old and new, are chronicling the [...]
Christmas 2019 #5
The desire to provide some sort of framework to our [...]
Christmas 2019 #4
Ms Griffiths GDP 253 notes the approach of Christmas, and [...]
Christmas 2019 #3
Diaries can be a place to reflect on the profounder [...]
Christmas 2019 #2
Christmas has the knack of giving perennial diary-ticks a seasonal [...]
Great Diary Christmas
Christmas is a good time for the diary. It pops [...]
Oh to be young
This set of diaries are singular. They are a brilliant [...]
One life, and a couple
Joyce Hinshelwood's diaries start as Boots Home Diaries (1965-1982), moving [...]
The splendour of the sky
Everyday nature changes, everyday diary entries are different, everyday people [...]
Tinker tailor soldier spy
This diary is written by a tailor who lived in [...]
A Kind Lady
We have recently received a deposit of Lady Gladys Arnold Robertson [...]
A writer and a wit
We were recently gifted the diaries of the niece of [...]
CityRead 2019
The Great Diary Project has, this month, spoken three times [...]
Diaries as order to the chaos…..
Diaries often have printed material at the front (and sometimes [...]