Welcome to the Diary Research Website

The Diary Research Website

Welcome

[This site is currently undergoing substantial alteration and apologies are tendered for the attendant confusions and malfunctions]

.....to the Diary Research Website, which is primarily a guide to the location of historical and literary sources, in the forms of Diaries and Journals, from all periods and parts of the world, which have been printed in English and are listed in the third edition of An Annotated Bibliography of Diaries Printed in English, compiled by Christopher Handley and published by Hanover Press.

The scope and content of the Bibliography are best illustrated by the sample pages and from the list of diarists. The free access version of the second edition of the Bibliography, which used to feature on this site, is no longer available.

Although the third edition of the Bibliography is now out of print, and very hard to find second-hand, it is at present available from this site in searchable pdf format as an email attachment and on Google Booksearch, where limited access is allowed for the time being. It is intended, in the near future to make the Bibliography available at reasonable cost as a download from this site and on CDROM.

It should be emphasised that, with two exceptions, this site is not a repository of diary texts.

The material on this site is copyright and may not be reproduced without the consent of Hanover Press. There are, however, limited permissions which may be assumed, and these are detailed in the Copyright Notices.