LONDON -- On Jan. 1, 1917, a young man from Lancashire started a diary. It might not sound like much to write home about, but the 21-year-old -- Lawrence Enderson Grimshaw -- happened to be a ...

A postcard discovered in the diary of a German World War One officer has led his descendant to bring a message sent to the trenches more than a century ago back to the family of a fallen British ...

Jonathan W. White was in California on another book project when he happened across the diaries of George Buswell. In the online catalog it said Buswell had served in Memphis, which he was ...

The diary was deposited with the University of Tokyo in 2019 and became available to the public this year, which marks the 80th year of Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941 (Dec. 8 ...

Private John Hope kept diaries of his time with the Seaforth ... he’d graduated as a historian and was ready to do an appendix on World War One. “Suddenly I found I was writing a book as ...

Examine the war diaries of the 92nd Infantry Brigade, including the 10th East Yorkshire Regiment, the Hull Commercials, featured in the series 'The Trench'. Diaries can help to build a daily ...

Thousands of black soldiers fought in the First World War. Poet Jackie Kay tells the story of one of them - Arthur Roberts. Arthur grew up in Glasgow and joined the King's Own Scottish Borderers ...

When five pals from Sanquhar headed off to fight in World War One, it was meant to be a big adventure. But sadly it ended in tragedy, with just one of them returning home. Private John Hope kept ...