A 'diversion' however I thought the Naval interest might merit... Nelson, Horatio, Viscount Nelson (1758-1805), naval officer, To read this Life of the Day...
I love stuff like this. Almost every Monday on the BBC London radio show they have a professor of linguistics (Laura Wright) talking about some aspect of...
The secret code of diaries There is a certain thrill to cracking a code. The 300,000-word journal of Charles Wesley, the co-founder of the Methodist movement,...
Black Death blamed on man, not rats * Jo Revill * The Observer, * Sunday May 16 2004 * Article history For years the Black Death in all its gory horror has...
thisislondon.co.uk has an article posted re shipwrecks in the Thames, one of which Pepys commented about. Contains sonar pix of the wreck [and others] and a...
Dublin Review of Books -- Includes spoilers ... History Is To Blame Maurice Earls: The Life and Times of Samuel Pepys Books drawn on in this essay include: The...
[Re Edward Montague C.J., Sandwich's great-grandfather] Henry VIII's benevolent side emerges with a £1m chain By Arifa Akbar, Arts Correspondent Thursday, 21...
You may have noticed the note on the Recent Activity page about things not showing up in the correct order. Just to confirm that things should be back to...
Special Exhibition at Greenwich (UK) -- Introduction & Survey of Dutch Maritime Painting Turmoil and Tranquility: The Sea Through The Eyes of Dutch and Flemish...
Fuller, Thomas (1607/8-1661), Church of England clergyman, was baptized on 19 June 1608 at St Peter, Aldwincle, Northamptonshire, the eldest of two sons and...
Hi everyone, I've just upgraded the website's Movable Type software to the latest version. You'll notice that the Recent Activity isn't functioning quite ...
I'm currently re-organising the 'Places' section of the Encyclopedia, partly as it's a bit messy, but partly so the different categories are more manageable...
I thought it might be useful to show some of the places that Pepys often visits on a single map, to get a good idea of how much he's travelling. I've tried...
http://www.pepysdiary.com/about/archive/2008/08/07/8873.php Some time ago I added the average monthly temperature and links to the House of Commons and House...
"He was the author of Animal Farm, 1984 and some of the most memorable political writing of the 20th Century. But, as his diaries show, George Orwell was also...
I'm letting my friends and acquaintances know that I've joined with other people from all over the country in a commitment to blog once weekly for Barack ...
Find could end 350-year science dispute By Jane Elliott Health reporter, BBC News Alexander was the first person born deaf to be taught to speak Who first...
What Pepys et al. would have worn at Magdalen College, Cambridge, on ceremonial occasions http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/2008_07/hats.html The...
You may already have realised, but the spam annotations are now thankfully under control again. The problem began when I omitted a crucial text file when...
I’m sorry for the continued lack of the lists of recent annotations on the Recent Activity page <http://www.pepysdiary.com/recent/>. The database queries...
I received information from Amazon about a book called Voices from the World of Samuel Pepys by Jonathan Bastable. It looks interesting. Has anyone read it?...
http://www.pepysdiary.com/about/archive/2008/06/24/8694.php You'll be pleased to read that the Recent Activity <http://www.pepysdiary.com/recent/> page is now...
"The centennial milestones of an important author offer an opportunity to look again at a life's work, to observe how well it has fared over the past 100 years...
