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Pages from a Diary

Personal essays and emotive histories

Pages from a Diary

Breaking the Cycle

Elise Tyson -
  My health app starts to crack near day 47 of my menstrual cycle. Since going off hormonal contraception (for good this time!), I’ve started...
Pages from a Diary

The Door Handle

Jacqueline Abelson -
My father appeared in my doorway on the first Monday of the New Year to inform me that my grandfather had died. I responded...
Essays

Between Willows and Walls: The 1960s at Eton College

David Ward -
  There’s no doubt that the possibility of enrolment in what is generally considered to be the world’s most renowned public school should be regarded...
Pages from a Diary

Sunlight, Scandals, and Sea Spray: Summer of ’59

David Ward -
Part One: Juan-Les-Pins--Comic Books, Cold Chicken, and the Hotel Juana The summer vacation that I was fortunate enough to experience, one school term prior to...
Essays

No Goodbye

Richard Britton -
From my early childhood Lenny Myers was my best friend as I grew up in Post-War Rushden, Northamptonshire where we had both been born....
Pages from a Diary

Hand-holding in the Streets

Sara Batool -
‘To hold each other’s hands is to have balance. Yet it also means having their weight with you, should there be a sudden fall.” - D....
Essays

Between Nowhere and Manywhere

Tamara Falcone -
I am mixed. Multi-ethnic. Biracial, if you will, although this word is an uncomfortable one for me. While the word “biracial” suggests division, the...
Essays

The First Supper

Sneha Roychoudhury -
In the first year of undergraduate school, unable to conjure the words for “homesick” and “lonely” in an unfamiliar city, I wrote ever so...
Pages from a Diary

‘Gutawa Khich’ by Gia Singh Arora

ALMA Staff -
"Filming ma while cooking in Falmouth, UK." A short film by Gia Singh Arora
Pages from a Diary

Of Silver Spoons and August Moons

David Ward -
"Jack Kennedy, Joe’s second son, had just reached his twenties, and my mother had two or three years on him, but he was soon deeply smitten by her Latin charms."
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