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

Extracts from Virginia Woolf to Guillaume Apollinaire

As these diaries show, women in film and politics have long been wise to men's bad behaviour

Accounts from Harold Wilson, Stanley Baldwin and the men who knew them

Among the armfuls of books in my new LGBTQ section, Alan Hollinghurst’s comprised the largest number. And for good reason

“The president was drinking. He said he was resigning.”