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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.
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
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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 ...
Biography portal; Writing portal; United Kingdom portal; Diarists from the Kingdom of Great Britain (1707 to 1800) and the United Kingdom (1801 to date). The subcategories are for people who are specifically identified as English, Scottish, or Welsh, and also for people of the historic kingdoms of England and Scotland before the Union of 1707.
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 ...