"Oscar Wilde, I pity you because you must be suffering more than we"

“My food is not that of man; I do not destroy the lamb and the kid, to glut my appetite”

Extracts from memoirs and diaries

Drink is the organising principle of this entertaining memoir

Extracts from memoirs and diaries

In this month's "The way we were," Ian Irvine explores diets detailed in memoirs and letters

Sylvia Plath "could cry with happiness", while Jeremy Lewis found Dublin "quite dreadful"

How did the world—and Denis Law—respond to England's historic World Cup victory?

Nero competed in the four-horse chariot race using a 10-horse chariot; Trump also allegedly "cheats like hell"

Diary extracts, and letters, show that the fear of Russian influence is nothing new