Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Samuel Pepys is famed for documenting the Great Plague of 1665 and the Great Fire of London of 1666 in his diary (Getty) Students ...

Pupils and staff at an old Cambridgeshire school have voted to remove the name of Samuel Pepys from one of its pastoral houses following revelations about the former pupil's treatment of women. Pepys ...

Students at a Peterborough area school have voted to drop Samuel Pepys’s name from one of their houses after recent diary revelations suggest the 17th century figure was a sex offender.

Students at a Cambridgeshire school have voted to remove 17th-century diarist Samuel Pepys' name from one of its houses. That comes after research highlighting his “abusive and exploitative” behaviour ...