Kate Loveman’s history of a national treasure preserves Pepys’s charm while revealing a discomfiting historical world.

Pepys wrote about several significant historical events during this time period, such as the Second Anglo-Dutch War, the Great Fire of London, and the Great Plague of London in 1665.

IT was recorded in NATURE of February 18, p. 229, that Pepys, after an interval of non-service, re-entered the council of the Royal Society at the anniversary meeting on November 30, 1681, Sir ...

THE final edition of Pepys is a matter that may deservedly receive some brief attention. In these twelve volumes, 1 admirable in all points of bookmaking, low-priced, and containing large ...

Samuel Pepys (1633–1703), the famous English diarist and naval administrator, had a penchant for fancy French clothes - although he described a fellow France-loving Englishman as 'an absolute ...

Diarist Samuel Pepys - who chronicled the Great Fire of London and plague - is being honoured with a £2 coin. And if past form is anything you go on it could be selling for a lot more than that ...

The fate of famous diarist Samuel Pepys's young mistress has been unearthed by new research. A lecturer at Leicester University has revealed Pepys and his mistress Deb Willet kept in contact after she ...

Pepys, who was born to quarrelsome and barely literate parents and rose to become a principal officer of the navy, could be radical in religion and politics, exuberant in friendship, restlessly ...

Pepys was an avid collector of books. Soon after his death, his meticulously ordered library, including the diaries, was transferred to which city, where it remains to this day in the original ...

The 17th century diarist Samuel Pepys’s collection of French fashion prints casts light on his attitudes to fashion in the period after he stopped keeping a diary, an academic has said.

Pepys decided “never to appear in Court” with the sleeves and made a tailor cut them off, “as it is fit I should”. Pepys learnt a lesson that day but this did not put him off fashion.

Pepys was curious, at any rate, whatever his more settled opinion may have been. The neglect of proper ceremonial rites made him uneasy, as when the clergyman omitted the sign of the Cross at a ...