There is a new site... I'm not sure when the domain name will change and everyone will see it - I can't yet, but hopefully in the next few hours this will...
Hello Everybody, Hope you all had a splendid Christmas ... back to work (Joke). Whilst beavering away between pulling crackers and opening presents I came...
Dear Fellow Travelers in the Realms of the Restoration, I thought you might enjoy the new ONDB entry on a remarkable contemporary of Sam and companion of...
Roger Brown (rb) forwarded another Pepys-related find. Terry Foreman ... From: rb <broroger@...> Date: Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 9:29 AM Subject: The Roger...
Annotations switched off http://www.pepysdiary.com/about/archive/2012/12/10/14006.php I'm experimenting with a few things on the site, with the aim of starting...
Hoping the Phil will get the Diary up and running after New Year's. I have been experiencing Pepys-withdrawal symptoms for some time now! Cheers, JM in NC...
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (Reuters) - An historic Boston church has decided to sell a copy of the first book published in the American colonies, hoping to get...
My name is Steven W. Winegardner and I work at the Library of Congress. I live at Dupont Circle. I would like to meet any other readers on this site who live...
Around 350 years ago, the famous diarist, MP and English naval adminstrator, Samuel Pepys, wrote in his diary that a man had come to his door with an envelope...
Michail Robinson posted this on Facebook: Peter Lely: A Lyrical Vision, Courtauld Gallery, review Alastair Sooke is intrigued by this show at the Courtauld...
A new edition of one of Samuel Pepys's famed contemporaries' Magnum Opus. ... From: Roger Brown <broroger@...> Date: Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 11:57 AM ...
Roger Brown (rb) sent this. ... From: rb <broroger@...> Date: Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 2:12 PM Subject: Migraine: Worms for her, please! To: terry foreman...
LONDON — To stroll out of Carlton Gardens into the elegant confines of the Royal Society is to find a trove of centuries-old wonders, from Sir Isaac ...
Another winner from Roger Brown. ... From: rb <broroger@...> Date: Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 10:15 AM Subject: Vasa – the lopsided warship To: terry foreman...
Hello Everybody, John Evelyn had occasion, in effect, to renew his passport. We, perhaps, thinks today's passport renewals are somewhat cumbersome but have a...
Farewell to Pepys. After 40 years of friendship, the bond was broken by Samuel's death on 26th May, 1703. The friendship had survived the deeply troubled times...
Hello - in John Evelyn's Diary, I'm slowly getting there, the entry (a largish one) for 7th October, 1688 contains a long word in Greek (it may be ancient...
BRYAN, Texas (AP) — More than three centuries ago, a French explorer's ship sank in the Gulf of Mexico, taking with it France's hopes of colonizing a vast...
Chris Riddell: What I'm thinking about ... a new era for illustration 'In the digital future, texts will be annotated visually, animated and illustrated like...
Hello Everybody, I'm still plugging away at the (work in progress) 'on-line' version of 'that Other Diary.' Samuel, of course, was a great personal friend of ...
"This month, 323 years ago, an English biographer scribbled notes to another scholar -- or rather, he scribbled and kept on scribbling. By the time he wrote on...
