About Olave's Diaries
This Website has been set up to hold the transcriptions of her Diaries, 1900 - 1977.
Please be aware that it is "a work in progress", so some links don't work - yet !
The Diaries are being transcribed by a team of volunteers, a month at a time - about 940 months in total, of which over 900 have been transcribed - but they are not all here on this WebSite - yet. The first scans became availab;e just before Christmas 2023.
Olave's handwriting is sometimes not readable, and the text it replaced with [ ? ], so if you come across that, do ask, giving the date of the entry, and the scan can be sent to you to "have a go".
As transcription is completed for a year, that year will be added as plain text, holding the content that Olave wrote, and it is searchable. Thoe years that are availab;e are shown in RED on the Index Page.
If you would like a copy of the formatted WORD file, with references and sometimes pictures, just ask.
Your comments are invited ! Click here, but please give the date to which your comment refers,
There is a WebSite here that is about Olave, but it does not have room for her Diaries.
It is "a work in progress" - don't hold your breath !
Olave's entries can be accessed through this Index.
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No clearer reasons for the recording of History have ever been enunciated than these words :
"We...have the benefit of a long and proud history. This not only gives us a trusted framework of stability and continuity to ease the process of change, but it also tells us what is of lasting value. Only the passage of time can filter out the ephemeral from the enduring. And what endures are the characteristics that mark our identity..."
Taken from the speech given by Queen Elizabeth II to both Houses of Parliament at the start of her Golden Jubilee celebrations, Westminster Hall, April 30th, 2002.
Olave kept a diary from 1900 until her death in 1977. The diaries are held in safe-keeping, and have now been scanned and are being transcribed, and the text is being posted and an be accessed through this Page - the Year is a Link you can click on to go to that entry. The plain text can also be found in the Library.
Olave's mother kept a Journal for Olave from 1882 - before she was married - up to 1919, when Olave's father and her sister died. This 390-page hand-written bookincludes much information - and some photographs - about Olave before Olave started to keep a Diary.
Again, the handwriting, though "beautigul", is sometimes difficult to read, but a srart has been made on the transcriotion.
If you are willing to help transcribe, please click here
If you have a comment, explanation or relevant Link, please click here to send me an email. Please start the SubjectLine with the diary date - year, month number and day number - to which your message applies.
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