A fair amount of what the world knows of 17th century London was captured by one man. For 10 years, Samuel Pepys made daily entries in a shorthand common to scholars of the day. He was a keen observer ...

The reblogging of 17th-century Londoner Samuel Pepys’ diary concludes today One of the more unique sites on the internet is getting ready to post its final update. Since 2003, Phil Gyford has posted ...

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 ...

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 ...