Day Books is an independent publishing company, established in 1998 to publish a series of ‘great diaries from around the world’. Since then we’ve branched out to include all kinds of personal writing: biography, autobiography, and collections of letters.

We also have two other imprints: the Charlbury Press, publishing local-interest material relating to Oxfordshire and the Cotswolds, and Leo Children’s Books.

Monday 11 August. Is it possible that there's some unwritten rule that says that nothing noteworthy should ever happen on this day, 11 August, here in Oxfordshire? Or is it just that none of the many diarists who've written about Oxford and Oxfordshire, over the past few hundred years, have been able to come up with an interesting or noteworthy diary entry for this day?

Actually, 11 August isn't unique. Oxfordshire's diarists haven't had much to say about 9 January - 6 February - 12 April - and quite a few other dates as well.. But perhaps I've been looking in the wrong places ...

So i f you're a diarist, and you've written about Oxford or Oxfordshire - or if you're hoarding a collection of manuscript diaries from a Victorian grocer in Bicester, or a Tudor housewife in Abingdon - then Day Books would really like to hear from you! We're planning a major project over the next few months, but we still need more input, and it would be great if you were able to help.