A rare "wanted" poster for Charles II has been sold for just over £33,000 at an auction in Shropshire. The poster offers a reward of £1,000 for the capture...
The Pepys Diary app for iPhone and iPad now includes the diary from 1662 (as well as 1660 and 1661). If you have the app you can update it to the new version...
Hampton Court exhibition reveals damned beauties of Stuart era "For the beautiful young women at the court of "the merry monarch" Charles II, trying to live on...
The evidence for that is vaguely circumstantial. We know Pepys made shorthand jottings each day of expenses as he could. Those notes for the trip he took June...
I would have thought that the purpose of 'shorthand' was to take 'real-time' notes of what was happening - as a secretary to a meeting does today. Perhaps the...
Is there any evidence that Pepys took notes while about his daily business? I am thinking especially of his Great Fire week entries, which he wrote up the...
Baruch Spinoza, the 17th-century Dutch thinker, may be among the more enigmatic (and mythologized) philosophers in Western thought, but he also remains one of...
http://www.radiolab.org/2012/feb/20/edge-heavens/ Edward Dolnick tells an escape story involving God, humanity, and a huge rewrite of cosmic laws. It began in...
In 1628, the Swedish warship Vasa sank on its maiden voyage. Over the centuries, many have tried to explain what caused that embarrassing and deadly mishap. ...
Early Science: An Historical PerspectiveGresham College posted Thursday, 25 November 2010 Wadham College, Oxford A Symposium to mark the 350th anniversary of...
Hello Phil, Yes the link is working for me too ... perhaps it was a pre-valentine day advert that temporarily took over my machine (Joke). In friendship, Eric....
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Feb 13, 2012 9:35 pm
Thanks for all your meticulous attention to detail, Phil! ... -- Kind regards, *Susan Thomas* Emphron Informatics Level 3 88 Jephson St TOOWONG QLD 4066 ...
It works and has worked fine for me, too, from Murray. Kentucky, US. Terry ... It works and has worked fine for me, too, from Murray. Kentucky, US. Terry On...
It's working fine for me Eric, today and yesterday - maybe it's a problem at your end? Phil ... -- Phil Gyford http://www.gyford.com/ It's working fine for me...
http://www.pepysdiary.com/about/archive/2012/02/13/13385.php Site News: Family Tree updated In case you like to keep an updated version of the Pepys Family...
Hello Phil, You've probably already found out that the http://www.romanbritain.freeserve.co.uk/Pepyseve.htm link has been taken over by 'snog.com' -...
I forgot the link to the section of the site, although I'm sure you'd have managed to find it! http://www.pepysdiary.com/letters/ ... -- Phil Gyford ...
Letters between Pepys and Evelyn on the site http://www.pepysdiary.com/about/archive/2012/02/10/13340.php I’ve just added a new section to the site, for...
The age old pantomime of Punch and Judy is being recreated at the Barbican theatre in London, 350 years after the first recorded reference of the puppet show...
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Feb 3, 2012 9:44 pm
Great! Thanks for all your enhancements, which, because it all in general works so smoothly, we tend to take for granted and shouldn't! Thank you. ... -- Kind...
Excellent! I bet you had this brainwave when you weren't consciously thinking about it (one reason why so many good ideas happen when in the shower...  ...
Site News: Recent Activity page is back http://www.pepysdiary.com/about/archive/2012/02/03/13275.php I had a brainwave about how the Recent Activity...
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Feb 2, 2012 9:34 pm
Thank you Phil, for everything you do! ... -- Kind regards, *Susan Thomas* Emphron Informatics Level 3 88 Jephson St TOOWONG QLD 4066 Office: +61 7 3503 1765 ...
Site News: Recent Activity page out of action again http://www.pepysdiary.com/about/archive/2012/02/02/13274.php I'm afraid I've had to stop the Recent...
End of the Diary in Massachusetts http://www.pepysdiary.com/about/archive/2012/01/31/13272.php ... For further details, or to confirm, feel free to contact...
Sounds like a good compromise. Given the number of annotations over the time period the site has been up, and the resulting size of the DB, I'm surprised...
Sorry that it's still down - I'll have time on Saturday to have a look at it! ... -- Phil Gyford http://www.gyford.com/ -- Phil Gyford http://www.gyford.com/...
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Jan 18, 2012 12:09 pm
Thanks for all your hard work, Phil! Much appreciated by us all. ... -- Kind regards, *Susan Thomas* Emphron Informatics Level 3 88 Jephson St TOOWONG QLD 4066...
