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Hace 2 días · May 25, 2024. Samuel Pepys‘ diary is a remarkable primary source document that has provided historians with an unparalleled glimpse into life in 17th century England. Kept daily from 1660 to 1669, Pepys‘ diary records not just the most intimate details of his personal life, but also eyewitness accounts of major historical events like the ...
Hace 5 días · Masques at a Chelsea school in 1656 or 1657 were recalled in 1663 by Elizabeth Pepys's paid companion Mary Ashwell, who still assisted with small children there. (fn. 3) Possibly it was the good school which had been within convenient distance of a house leased to William Lawrence in 1652 and 1662.
Hace 1 día · May 1661 begins with Pepys again on the road, now at Portsmouth, “a very pleasant and strong place.” It’s a work trip, attending to navy business, but Sam has brought his wife Elizabeth with him and they get to see a neat ship named for Pepys’ patron, and when they take lodgings Pepys notes whenever they’re in a room that the king or the queen mother has recently slept in.
Hace 17 horas · Pepys no menciona muy a menudo las verduras, pero sí hace referencias pasajeras a la col, los guisantes, los espárragos, la cebolla y el pepino, y a las ensaladas en las que, aunque no lo dice, se mezclaban flores y hierbas con lechuga, rábano y pepino, aunque no tomates, que Pepys nunca menciona: eran originarios de México, pero, como se consideraban fríos para el estómago y posible ...
Hace 5 días · Answer: Elizabeth Pepys (his wife) Elizabeth Pepys was only twenty-nine when she died. In the late summer of 1669, the Pepys made a trip to France, and Elizabeth caught a fever on the voyage home. She was seriously ill by the time she reached their home in Seething Lane on Oct. 20, 1669.
Hace 3 días · James VII and II (14 October 1633 O.S. – 16 September 1701) [a] was King of England and Ireland as James II and King of Scotland as James VII [4] from the death of his elder brother, Charles II, on 6 February 1685. He was deposed in the Glorious Revolution of 1688. He was the last Catholic monarch of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
Hace 17 horas · It’s 100 years ago this year that the British Empire Exhibition was held in Wembley Park. Located on a more than 200 acre site, the exhibition was designed to showcase the diversity and reach of the empire. It ran for two six-month long summer seasons – first opening on 23rd April, 1924, and running until 1st November that year and then ...
