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Someone who keeps a diary is known as a diarist. Diaries undertaken for institutional purposes play a role in many aspects of human civilization, including government records (e.g. Hansard), business ledgers, and military records. In British English, the word may also denote a preprinted journal format.
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the principal historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press (OUP), a University of Oxford publishing house. The dictionary, which published its first edition in 1884, traces the historical development of the English language, providing a comprehensive resource to ...
Alfred Bestall (1892–1986), English illustrator, best known for Rupert Bear stories; Mary Matilda Betham (1776–1852), English poet, woman of letters and miniature portrait painter. Ethel Bilbrough (1868–1951), English First World War diarist and artist; Maine de Biran (1766–1824), French writer, philosopher and mathematician
James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck (/ ˈ b ɒ z w ɛ l,-w əl /; 29 October 1740 [1] – 19 May 1795), was a Scottish biographer, diarist, and lawyer, born in Edinburgh.He is best known for his biography of the English writer Samuel Johnson, Life of Samuel Johnson, which is commonly said to be the greatest biography written in the English language.
Thomas Cromwell (c. 1540 – c. 1611) [1] was an English Member of Parliament during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.His diaries of proceedings in the House of Commons are an important source for historians of parliamentary history during the period when he was a member, and Sir John Neale draws heavily upon them in his ground-breaking two-volume study of Elizabeth I and Her Parliaments (1953 ...
John Evelyn FRS (31 October 1620 – 27 February 1706) was an English writer, landowner, gardener, courtier and minor government official, who is now best known as a diarist. He was a founding Fellow of the Royal Society. [1]
Anne Frank -- the legendary diarist who wrote about her experiences hiding from the Nazis during World War II -- was born on June 12, 1929, in Frankfurt, Germany. On her 13th birthday, Frank's ...
Robert Woodford (3 April 1606 – 15 November 1654) was an English lawyer, best known for an extensive diary that covers the period 1637–1641. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He expresses the views of a Puritan travelling just before the English Civil War .