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Everyone understands the idea of a diary. We have all kept a diary for various reasons and in various ways. For some people it may simply be used as a reminder for appointments or events, detailing where they need to be and what they need to be doing at different times; others may keep a more detailed diary or personal account of what they are doing and perhaps what they were thinking and feeling at the time. Individuals often develop personal preferences, routines and systems for keeping a personal diary and choose to keep what they record private. Others may choose, or be invited, to publish their diary; think, for example, of the British journalist and political aide Alastair Campbell who has published three volumes of diaries about his time serving alongside the then Prime Minister, Tony Blair. For many people, there is something inherently absorbing about writing and/or reading someone else’s personal …