.. and hello Gillian! Fellow Restoration nut and author! Really appreciate all the comments and links. Given me lots to think about. And thanks Eric. I will...
Diary emails and RSS feed fixed http://www.pepysdiary.com/news/2013/03/03/14009/ If you read the diary entries by email or RSS you might have noticed it’s...
Hallo all! My name is Chris Humphreys. I write historical fiction as C.C. Humphreys - 12 novels so far. I am currently writing a pair of thrillers set against...
http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/london/the-delightful-mr-pepys.html Happy Birthday Samuel! Roger Ebert is, of course, the famous movie critic from the Chicago...
Anti-spam measures http://www.pepysdiary.com/news/2013/02/20/14008/ It only took seven hours after opening up registrations for our first spammer to sign up. I...
I thought you might enjoy this... Henry VIII's wine cellar, originally part of the Whitehall Palace that Pepys would have known, still exists, underneath the...
It is notable how often Samuel was drinking in taverns. In today's extract for 21 January he goes into The Mitre in Fleet Street. Although the tavern has...
If you're interested in learning more about Charles II's six-week odyssey trying to get out of England after the Battle of Worcester in 1651, please visit my...
Pepys and his friends drank at the Royal Oak, one of the early namesakes and likely the first tavern of the oak in which he spent a day while on the run from...
PTSD: The Soldier's Private War Wednesday, 09 January 2013 00:00 By Robert Wilbur <http://truth-out.org/author/itemlist/user/44815> and James L Knoll IV...
Sam (and his slide rule) gets a mention this week as part of an explanation of the origins of the phrase above, in Michael Quinion's always-excellent...
Hello Everybody, If you are not already a member of the evelyndiary Yahoo Group you are cordially invited to join us. You can join by going to the John Evelyn...
Magdalene College Cambridge is to hold a conference on 'Samuel Pepys and wine' to coincide with the 350th anniversary of the great diarist, and his mention of...
The mention of Salisbury Court in yesterday's emailed Pepys diary entry for 16 January 1660 reminded me that I walked through that little street on Tuesday...
Annotations update http://www.pepysdiary.com/news/2013/01/18/4/ It’s been a little while since my previous post* about the new site, so here’s an update. ...
Who knew that Samantha Cameron is the direct descendant of Nell Gwyn? She is the great-great-great-great-great-great-great granddaughter of Charles II's...
What a marvellous start to the New Year - the Restoration in 1660, and the restoration of daily entries from Sam Pepys emailed in real time day by day! I have...
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...
