In early April, writer Jen Miller urged New York Times readers to start a coronavirus diary. “Who knows,” she wrote, “maybe one day your diary will provide a valuable window into this period.” During ...

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 ...

"Oh, hello. I didn't see you there. I was just catching up on my latest diary entry." Wikimedia Commons Samuel Pepys kept a diary for just nine years. Thankfully for historians—if not for Pepys, who ...

IN Mr. Bradford’s practice of the art of ‘psychography’ he has established a method of biography which is very much his own. It is the method of the intrinsic rather than the extrinsic: it has much ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the history of science and exploration. On April 30, 1665 – 355 years ago today – a high-ranking British government ...

Tables of contents for recent issues of The English Historical Review are available at http://www3.oup.co.uk/enghis/contents/. Authorized users may be able to access ...

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 ...

Jean Dieu de Saint-Jean, Habit Noir (evening wear), etching c. 1670. A print collected by Samuel Pepys showing a fashionable elite Frenchman proudly wearing lace cuffs and ribbons. A collection of ...

Heiko A. Oberman Professor of Late Medieval and Reformation History, University of Arizona In early April, writer Jen Miller urged New York Times readers to start a coronavirus diary. “Who knows,” she ...