by Paul K Lyons
DESCRIPTOR LISTINGS
social to 1799___ social
from 1800___ travel to 1799___ travel from 1800
domestic___ literary___ love/sex___ political___ religious
people___ self___ society___ family___ health
maritime, military
art, film, music, sport, theatre
exploration, geology, nature, science
archaeology, architecture, creativity,
culture, language
farming, horses, transport, village, weather
commerce, education, law, philosophy, prison,
psychology
childhood, historyeye, nazism, royalty,
slavery
European countries___ non-European
countries
maritime, military (sorted
by diary dates)
Surname, first name___ born-died ___ nationality ___ occupation ___ diary
dates
MARITIME
Data ___ Tsurayuki,
Kino ___ 869-945 ___ Japanese ___ poet, diplomat ___ 935
Data ___ Pu, Ch'oe ___ 1454-1504 ___ Korean
___ diplomat ___ 1487-1488
Data ___ Columbus, Christopher ___
1451-1506 ___ Italian ___ sailor ___ 1492-1493 1498
Data ___ da Gama, Vasco ___ 1469c-1524
___ Portuguese ___ sailor ___ 1497-1499
Data ___ Pigafetta, Antonio ___
1491c-1534c ___ Italian ___ sailor ___ 1519-1522
Data ___ Torre, Tomás de la
___ 1510c-1567 ___ Spanish ___ priest ___ 1544-1545
Data ___ Madox, Richard ___ 1546-1583
___ British ___ priest ___ 1582
Data ___ Fenton, Edward ___ n/a-1603
___ British ___ sailor ___ 1582-1583
Data ___ Keeling, William ___ 1578-1620
___ British ___ sailor ___ 1607 1615-1617
Data ___ Munk, Jens ___ 1579-1628 ___
Danish ___ explorer ___ 1619-1620
Data ___ Herbert, Thomas ___ 1606-1682
___ British ___ historian ___ 1627-1629
Data ___ Mather, Richard ___ 1596-1669
___ American ___ priest ___ 1635
Data ___ Teonge, Henry ___ 1620-1690
___ British ___ priest ___ 1675-1676 1678-1679
Data ___ d'Ibberville, Pierre
Lemoyne ___ 1661-1706 ___ Canadian ___ sailor, explorer ___ 1698-1699
Data ___ Rooke, George ___ 1650-1709
___ British ___ sailor ___ 1700-1703
Data ___ Roggeveen, Jakob ___ 1659-1729
___ Dutch ___ sailor ___ 1721-1722
Data ___ Boltzius, Johann Martin
___ n/a-n/a ___ German ___ priest ___ 1734
Data ___ Von Reck, Philipp Georg
___ n/a-n/a ___ German ___ civilservant ___ 1734
Data ___ Fielding, Henry ___ 1707-1754
___ British ___ writer ___ 1754
Data ___ Cook, James ___ 1728-1779 ___
British ___ sailor ___ 1768-1779
Data ___ Mydelton, Joseph ___ n/a-1787
___ British ___ priest ___ 1774-1787
Data ___ De La Pérouse,
Jean-François De Galaup ___ 1741-1788 ___ French ___ sailor, explorer
___ 1785-1788
Data ___ Fremantle, Elizabeth ___
1779-1857 ___ British ___ n/a ___ 1789-1857
Data ___ Von Lowenstern, Hermann
Ludwig ___ 1777-1836 ___ German ___ sailor ___ 1793-1815
Data ___ Cockburn, George
___ 1772-1853 ___ British ___ sailor ___ 1815
Data ___ Joinville, Francois Ferdinand
___ 1818-1900 ___ French ___ sailor ___ 1818-1848
Data ___ Darwin, Charles ___ 1809-1882
___ British ___ scientist ___ 1831-1836
Data ___ Moore, George ___ n/a-n/a
___ British ___ merchant ___ 1844
Data ___ Brooke, Charles Anthony ___
1829-1917 ___ British ___ civilservant, sovereign ___ 1852-1862 1866-1868
Data ___ Casey, John Sarsfield ___
1846-1896 ___ Irish ___ politician, civilservant ___ 1867-1868
Data ___ Cunningham, Alfred ___
1882-1939 ___ American ___ aviator ___ 1917-1918
Data ___ Steinbeck, John ___ 1902-1968
___ American ___ writer ___ 1940 1951 1960
Data ___ Malthe-Bruun, Kim ___
1923-1945 ___ Danish ___ sailor ___ 1941-1945
MILITARY
Data ___ Landucci, Luca
___ 1436g-1516 ___ Italian ___ tradesman ___ 1450-1516
Data ___ Barbaro, Nicolo ___ n/a-n/a
___ Italian ___ doctor ___ 1453
Data ___ da Gama, Vasco ___ 1469c-1524
___ Portuguese ___ sailor ___ 1497-1499
Data ___ Socho, Saiokuken ___ 1448-1532
___ Japanese ___ writer ___ 1501 1515 1522-1527
Data ___ Coningsby, Thomas ___
1561c-1625 ___ British ___ soldier, politician ___ 1591
Data ___ Choshoshi, Kinoshita ___
1569-1649 ___ Japanese ___ soldier, poet ___ 1592
Data ___ Rous, John ___ 1584-1644 ___
British ___ priest ___ 1625-1642
Data ___ Slingsby, Henry ___ 1601-1658
___ British ___ politician ___ 1638-1648
Data ___ Aston, John ___ 1602-1650g
___ British ___ courtier ___ 1639
Data ___ Stevens, John ___ n/a-1726
___ British ___ civilservant ___ 1689-1691
Data ___ d'Ibberville, Pierre
Lemoyne ___ 1661-1706 ___ Canadian ___ sailor, explorer ___ 1698-1699
Data ___ Rooke, George ___ 1650-1709
___ British ___ sailor ___ 1700-1703
Data ___ Pillai, Ananda Ranga ___
1709-1761 ___ Indian ___ civilservant, writer ___ 1736-1761
Data ___ Washington, George ___
1732-1799 ___ American ___ soldier, politician ___ 1748-1799
Data ___ Knox, John ___ 1741-1778 ___
Irish ___ soldier ___ 1757-1760
Data ___ Dawson, John ___ 1727c-1769
___ British ___ soldier ___ 1761
Data ___ von Fersen, Hans Axel
___ 1755-1810 ___ Swedish ___ soldier, diplomat ___ 1771-1778 1792-1793
Data ___ Cresswell, Nicholas ___
1750-1804 ___ British ___ farmer ___ 1774-1777
Data ___ Ewald, Johann ___ 1744-1813
___ German ___ soldier ___ 1776-1784
Data ___ Robinson, Frederick
Philipse ___ 1763-1852 ___ American ___ soldier ___ 1777-1814
Data ___ Dyott, William ___ 1761-1846
___ British ___ soldier ___ 1781-1845
Data ___ Rawdon, Francis ___ 1754-1826
___ British ___ soldier, diplomat ___ 1794-1795 1813-1818
Data ___ Stendhal, ___ 1783-1842
___ French ___ writer ___ 1801-1814
Data ___ Hawker, Peter ___ 1786-1853
___ British ___ soldier ___ 1802-1853
Data ___ Swabey, William ___ 1789-1872
___ British ___ soldier, politician ___ 1811-1813
Data ___ Campbell, Neil ___ 1776-1827
___ British ___ soldier ___ 1814-1815
Data ___ Joinville, Francois Ferdinand
___ 1818-1900 ___ French ___ sailor ___ 1818-1848
Data ___ Windham, Charles ___ 1810-1870
___ British ___ soldier ___ 1830-1836 1854-1861
Data ___ Tolstoy, Leo ___ 1828-1910
___ Russian ___ writer ___ 1846-1910
Data ___ Graham, Gerald ___ 1831-1899
___ British ___ soldier ___ 1854-1885
Data ___ Ward, Lester Frank ___
1841-1913 ___ American ___ scientist, teacher ___ 1860-1870
Data ___ Solomon, Clara ___
1845-1907 ___ American ___ n/a ___ 1861-1862
Data ___ Chesnut, Mary Boykin ___
1823-1886 ___ American ___ n/a ___ 1861-1865
Data ___ Emerson, Nancy ___ 1807-1864
___ American ___ n/a ___ 1862-1864
Data ___ Gordon, Charles ___ 1833-1885
___ British ___ soldier ___ 1863 1884
Data ___ Williamson, Alice ___
1844c-1869 ___ American ___ n/a ___ 1864
Data ___ Kessler, Harry ___ 1868-1937
___ French ___ soldier ___ 1880-1937
Data ___ Klee, Paul ___ 1879-1940 ___
Swiss ___ artist ___ 1897-1918 1914
Data ___ Baynes, Arthur Hamilton ___
1854-1942 ___ British ___ priest ___ 1899-1900
Data ___ LLoyd, Eyre ___ n/a-1901 ___
British ___ soldier ___ 1899-1901
Data ___ Scriven, George Percival
___ 1854-1940 ___ American ___ soldier ___ 1899-1901
Data ___ Waugh, Evelyn ___ 1903-1966
___ British ___ writer ___ 1911-1965
Data ___ Brittain, Vera ___ 1893-1970
___ British ___ writer ___ 1913-1917 1932-1945
Data ___ Macnaughton, Sarah ___
1850-1916 ___ British ___ nurse, writer ___ 1914-1916
Data ___ Farmborough, Florence
___ 1887-1978 ___ British ___ nurse ___ 1914-1918
Data ___ Jones, Edwin ___ n/a-1919
___ British ___ soldier ___ 1915-1916
Data ___ West, Arthur Graeme ___ 1891-1917
___ British ___ soldier ___ 1915-1916
Data ___ Sassoon, Siegfried ___ 1886-1967
___ British ___ poet ___ 1915-1925
Data ___ Mackay, Robert Lindsay ___
1896-1981 ___ British ___ soldier, doctor ___ 1916-1918
Data ___ Cunningham, Alfred ___
1882-1939 ___ American ___ aviator ___ 1917-1918
Data ___ Tsvetaeva, Marina ___
1892-1941 ___ Russian ___ poet ___ 1917-1920
Data ___ Romanoff, Alexis Lawrence
___ 1892-1980 ___ Russian ___ soldier, teacher ___ 1917-1920 1936-1948
Data ___ Mentzalis, Ioannis ___
1896-1979 ___ Greek ___ soldier ___ 1919-1922
Data ___ Mountbatten, Louis ___
1900-1979 ___ British ___ sailor, civilservant ___ 1921-1979
Data ___ Goebbels, Paul Josef ___
1897-1945 ___ German ___ politician ___ 1925-1926 1939-1941
Data ___ Friend, Donald ___ 1915-1989
___ Australian ___ artist, writer ___ 1929-1989g
Data ___ Pym, Barbara ___ 1913-1980 ___
British ___ writer ___ 1932-1979
Data ___ Senesh, Hanna ___ 1921-1944
___ Hungarian ___ writer, soldier ___ 1934-1944
Data ___ Mitchison, Naomi ___ 1897-1999
___ British ___ writer ___ 1934 1939-1945
Data ___ Rabe, John ___ 1882-1949 ___
German ___ merchant ___ 1937-1938
Data ___ Lindbergh, Charles
___ 1902-1974 ___ American ___ aviator ___ 1938-1945
Data ___ Ciano, Galeazzo ___ 1903-1943
___ Italian ___ diplomat, politician ___ 1939-1943
Data ___ Mansel, John ___ 1909-1974
___ British ___ architect, soldier ___ 1940-1945
Data ___ Menzies, Robert ___ 1894-1978
___ Australian ___ politician ___ 1941
Data ___ Poynton, John Orde ___ 1906-2001
___ British ___ doctor ___ 1942-1943
Data ___ Frank, Anne ___ 1929-1945
___ German ___ n/a ___ 1942-1944
Data ___ Tram, Dang Thuy ___ 1942-1970
___ Vietnamese ___ doctor ___ 1968-1970
ADVERTISEMENTS
Neither a travel guide nor a reference book, 'London
Cross' is, nevertheless, an intriguing mix of the two - this is an exciting
project in need of a sympathetic publisher. The basic concept is to describe
two walks across London, one along a route that sticks as closely as possible
(without trespassing) to a south-north line and one which does the same
along an east-west line. I completed the first of the two in 2004, and the
resulting narrative records a fascinating here-and-now slice of London.
It blends local history and stories with quirky facts on architecture, planning
and interesting information on companies, organisations, notices and advertisements.
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IMPORTANT NOTES:
These descriptors are only meant as a vague guide
and must be treated with caution. I have not examined
the diaries myself, so the descriptors are only guesses based on bibliographies,
anthologies and internet biographies. In many cases, the diaries mentioned
on this website will contain good content on descriptor topics for which
they have not been listed. There are three types of descriptors: those which
describe broad themes of a diary in general (i.e. literary, social, military
or travel); subjects where the topic is known to have been of some concern
to the diarist (such as weather, education or slavery); and countries outside
of the diarist's home nation (where the diarist is known to have written
about them). The descriptor 'society' is for diaries which record
details about what, for want of a better term, could be called high society,
while 'social' is a descriptor for diaries which record details about
the behaviour and habits of the less privileged. 'Literary' is a
descriptor for diaries considered literary or about the literary world.
'People' is a descriptor for diaries which contain references to
famous characters; and 'historyeye' is a term I've used for diarists
writing with first hand experience of historically famous events.