In July 2020, a quote ostensibly written in 1665 by Samuel Pepys, dubbed the world's greatest diarist by some, started to circulate on social media. The passage lamented how "gadabouts" (defined by ...

Samuel Pepys (1633–1703) is the most famous diarist in English letters. From 1660 t0 1669, he penned an unforgettable day-by-day description of Restoration London, with its disasters (the Great Plague ...

Ask anyone to name a London diarist, and the answer is almost unanimous: Samuel Pepys. Though the 17th century naval clerk and Tory MP only kept a diary for nine-and-a-bit years, that was plenty of ...