EYAM, England -- In this tiny gritstone village, letters once were fearful things. "I was loath to affright you with a paper from my hand," wrote the rector on Nov. 20, 1666. Accordingly, he often ...
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.