Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter I first encountered the diary of Samuel Pepys in 1958, when I was 10. It is the book that has informed – I might almost say "defined" ...

THE original Samuel Pepys wrote his secret diary in shorthand and was not deciphered until several centuries after his death, but ‘F. P. A.’ has worn his heart on his sleeve in the pages of four big ...

The Lost Diary of Samuel Pepys Jack Jewers Moonflower Books, €20 Debuts don’t come better than The Lost Diary of Samuel Pepys by Jack Jewers. Leaving aside the historical elements and the fact Pepys ...

How do we know what life was like in the past? Hundreds of years ago, there were no smart phones or cameras. Many people couldn't read or write because they didn't go to school. Back then, only ...

A collection of "visually appealing" medieval manuscript fragments collected and arranged in albums by Samuel Pepys has been digitised. Pepys is best known for his 1660s diaries, but he was also a ...

Samuel Pepys, like Gentleman Jack almost a hundred years later, wrote his diaries in code. Even when they were deciphered both writers, Pepys and Anne Lister, suffered from moral censorship, as their ...

Kate Loveman’s history of a national treasure preserves Pepys’s charm while revealing a discomfiting historical world. By Rowan Williams The creation of a national icon in this country is a ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Three centuries after his death, the career of Samuel Pepys is remembered largely because of the reforms he initiated in the management ...

We track Pepys’s astronomical rise from impoverished young hopeful to the most influential mandarin in the navy bureaucracy (Getty) One’s book of a lifetime should become a total obsession – a work ...