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Below you will find the main timeline developed in a calendar style. Scroll down and click on an entry to read and listen to extracts from all 17 diaries across different time periods.
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january
3rd January, 1943
Everyone knows Fascism is doomed...
read more 4th January, 1973
Memory alone is not an adequate guide...
read more 6th January, 1891
Making of my black silk dress…
read more 10th January, 1916
Small street Arabs stopped to stare at us...
read more 11th January, 1953
I do not believe in personal sacrifice...
read more 14th January, 1973
Will these horrors never cease...
read more 15th January, 1894
Love and memory clothe all my soul...
read more 19th January, 1930
Church considered too cold for me...
read more 22nd January, 1894
She had half a dozen ideas and lived in them...
read more 23rd January, 1906
English ignorance of Ireland is unbelievable...
read more 27th January, 1911
I went to a parade in front of the Schloss...
read more 28th January, 1951
I may be worse than poor mother...
read more 29th January, 1940
I very nearly lost good hat...
read more 30th January, 1981
Me & Mummy went shopping...
read moreMeet the Diarists
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