Keeping a diary can provide insight into both professional and private lives.
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Ken Cameron’s film of Helen Garner’s Monkey Grip is dark, yearning, weird – and incredibly sexy – writes Ronnie Scott.
As material objects, diaries give scholars an intimate look into their subjects’ lives, including handwriting and mementos. What if diaries in the future are nothing but insubstantial digital ghosts?
Anne Lister’s various exchanges were coded in her diary with a mixture of words and symbols.
The journal of a Pre-Raphaelite writer might help explain today’s turn to spiritualism.
Mould, dodging mine shafts, sleeping in beds of dried leaves: Mary Anne Allen’s diary offers a fascinating glimpse of family life on the goldfields in 1852.
A post-lesson diary is a promising teaching tool which helps students reflect on language connections and replay their learning steps.
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