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Hace 14 horas · The mention of a ‘scotoscope’ in Samuel Pepys’s diary is a subject of scrutiny, and Americans satiate British oyster lovers, in the weekly dip into Nature’s archive.
5 de jun. de 2024 · The famous London diarist, Samuel Pepys. National Portrait Gallery. For four decades English civil servant Samuel Pepys reported on the epic events of London city, most notably the Great Fire of London. On May 31, 1669, the gadabout diarist recorded the last event in his famous diary.
11 de jun. de 2024 · How moving Samuel Pepys’ diary off the bedside table changed history on the internet.
11 de jun. de 2024 · Samuel Pepys, by John Hayls, 1666. [National Portrait Gallery, London] Twenty-six-year old Pepys, a clerk in the office of the Exchequer, had begun the diary in 1660; in his first entry he described his station as “very handsome, and esteemed rich, but indeed very poor.”
5 de jun. de 2024 · Diarist Samuel Pepys, then secretary to the admiralty, thought the monarchy would fall. In fact, peace was made with limited advantage to the Dutch. England’s desire for revenge helped motivate another Anglo-Dutch War the following decade.
Hace 4 días · Samuel Pepys was a relative of the Pepys family which owned Impington Hall in the 17th century. His diary recorded four brief visits to the house in 1661-2 in connexion with his uncle's will.
Hace 1 día · Samuel Pepys was born in 1632, and was educated at St. Paul's School, London, and afterwards at the University of Cambridge. At the age of about twenty-three he took to himself a wife in the person of one Elizabeth St. Michael, then a beautiful girl fifteen years old.
