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 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 ...

Claire Tomalin on the life of the great diarist. Londoner Samuel Pepys, a 26-year-old government clerk, began his Diary in 1660. He was to witness the Great Plague in 1665,the Great Fire of 1666. By ...

Samuel Pepys' diary (1660 to 1669) and later collections of fashion plates show that fashion trends were as important to men as women in the 17th Century A series of French fashion engravings reveal ...

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 ...