As the Gavels Fell: 240 Years at Old Bailey By PATRICIA COHEN For 240 years the grand parade of human greed, love, cruelty, longing, and foolishness was...
http://www.pepysdiary.com/about/archive/2011/08/04/12801.php New BBC Pepys radio drama The BBC Radio 4 show, Woman’s Hour is soon going to be featuring a...
Hi all, At some point tomorrow (Tuesday), between 9am and 4pm, UK time, the Pepys site will be unavailable for around 45 minutes or so, as the hosting company...
The most useful knowledge we have about the great 17th-century Dutch painter Frans Hals is what we glean from the vibrant, shimmering surfaces of his art. He...
Books and Other Fetish Objects By JAMES GLEICK<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/g/james_gleick/index.html?inline=nyt-per> Published: ...
Hi, Apologies for the various problems on the site last week - things seemed to break with perfect timing while I was away on holiday without much internet...
PTSD's Trauma Symptoms Ring Out Through Ages While the term "post-traumatic stress syndrome" hints at a modern invention, the ill effects of combat stress have...
http://www.pepysdiary.com/about/archive/2011/06/26/12735.php Site News: Combatting spam annotations Over the last few days there has been an increasing amount...
In 1562, King Philip II needed a miracle. So he commissioned one from a highly-skilled clockmaker. In this short, a king's deal with God leads to an intricate...
Sun Headed Into Hibernation, Solar Studies Predict Sunspots may disappear altogether in next cycle. Victoria Jaggard National Geographic News Published June...
A Biblical Blueprint Meets the Fire Code and the Neighbors DORDRECHT, the Netherlands — If Noah had run into the modern nanny state, or nimby, or a few of...
Holly Tucker provides an account of the first blood transfusions, which took place in France in 1667, and the fallout from those experiments. The 61-minute...
Was there any way, in the 1660s, Pepys could have, as it were, jotted down notes while on his walks about the city? Using what writing implement, on what...
Cooper, Samuel (1607/8–1672), miniature painter, was born probably in Blackfriars, London, the elder child of Richard Cooper (b. 1577) and Barbara Hoskins...
Lessons from 10 years of Pepys's diaries online Cory Doctorow at 2:18 AM Thursday, Apr 14, 2011 For ten years, Phil Gyford has been republishing Samuel Pepys's...
Hello, In doing some family research and have found that Richard Cocke of Henrico, Virginia, circa 1627, is said to have been related to Captain Cocke....
Armstrong, Archibald [Archy] (d. 1672), court fool, was born of Scottish parents, perhaps at Arthuret in Cumberland or Langholm, Roxburghshire; his father...
Anyone walking back from church in Brampton on Sunday, June 16 1667 may have looked over a hedge and seen Samuel Pepys' wife, Elizabeth, and her father-in-law,...
http://www.pepysdiary.com/about/archive/2011/03/29/12345.php Contribute a summary or two You’ve no doubt noticed that many of the little pop-up descriptions...
Of Blood Transfusions and Beastliness By Emily Anthes Posted: March 16, 2011 The attendees at January's ScienceOnline conference walked away with some great...
This is Diary "history," as it were, but the DNB feature article on The great fire of Londonis a good read. (It features the familiar 1666 portrait of Pepys.)...
