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 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 ...

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 ...

Samuel Pepys, whose diary entries enriched our understanding of turbulent 17th century Britain, is being celebrated with a new £2 coin from the Royal Mint. A diary kept by Pepys from 1660 until 1669 ...

Samuel Pepys Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1661 N.S offers readers a candid and detailed look into the daily life of a 17th-century Englishman. Written in a frank and engaging style, Pepys diary ...

In 1703 a retired widower named Samuel Pepys died in a London suburb. He had risen from humble beginnings to occupy naval positions of immense power. For a time, as Secretary to the Admiralty, he had ...

Memorial to Samuel Pepys in his local church, St Olave Hart St near the Tower of London Anyone can find something in Samuel Pepys's diary that speaks directly to them. Often the everyday details of ...

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 ...

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" ...