In 1942, the diarist Anne Frank and her family took refuge from the Nazis in Amsterdam.

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Samuel Pepys, the diarist who told the story of the Great Fire of London set up one of the first pension schemes.

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But soon the diarist moves into the darker corners of his personality.

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Disappointed, the diarist and his friends started to ride back to town.

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And, ten years after the death of Alan Clark, Ion Trewin, who edited his diaries, and political commentator Anthony Howard, discussed how much of Clark the politician survives, as well as the diarist .

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He may have been a cad, a bounder and a terrible snob, but that is the essential armoury of a diarist.

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