http://www.pepysdiary.com/about/archive/2009/03/09/9809.php Yesterday there was an article in the Sunday Times about Pepys’ Diary, as well as the George...
Interesting to see on the above programme on Monday evening on BBCTV a reference to Samuel Pepys. The actor Kevin Whateley's ancestor was Col.Thomson...
Another Pepys' contemporary 'life of the day' Turnor, Sir Edward (1616/17–1676), judge and speaker of the House of Commons, was the second son of Arthur...
Hi, Sorry the current diary entry (25th Feb) didn't appear when it should have - I'd mistakenly dated it the 26th so it didn't automatically publish. He's got...
Moote and Moote's exhaustive history of the Great Plague is very full. A. Lloyd Moote and Dorothy G. Moote: The Great Plague. published by John Hopkins...
I can't see this mentioned so far on the diary website or here. I was recently given the book: 'By Permission of Heaven: The Story of the Great Fire of...
The English navy at around the time of the Armada was evolving revolutionary new tactics, according to new research. Tests on cannon recovered from an...
"Everything passes. In the 17th century, China and India accounted for more than half the world's economic output. After a modest interlude, the pendulum is...
Charles I (1600-1649), king of England, Scotland, and Ireland, was born in Dunfermline Castle, Scotland, on 19 November 1600 and baptized at the palace of...
To Sleep, Perchance to Dream Details: Curator(s): Carole Levin and Garrett Sullivan Sleeping and dreaming were topics of abiding fascination to the early ...
If you go to http://marinestore.co.uk and search for 'brass table screw" you will find an illustration of the item. Clearly designed to join two parallel...
History Today February 2009 | Volume: 59 Issue: 2 | Page 12-19 | Words: 3737 | Author: Thomas, Keith During the 17th century, Britain witnessed the birth of a...
Hello, I'm new here. I'm trying to understand what could be "table screws" on a ship in Pepys's time. I found this term in a list given by Claire Tomalin, when...
Reports that "black death" has swept through an al-Qaeda camp in north Africa, killing dozens of trainees, are unproven, but the story highlights how plague...
I read this review in this morning's LA Times ... a show of conceptual art based on words from Pepys' diary. I don't know if I'll be able to get to this but...
The 2008 Weblog Awards are once again up and running, and once again Neil Gaiman's Journal is in the lead. Are we going to let that happen? What would Sam and...
Compton, Sir William (1625–1663), army officer, was born at Compton Wynyates, Warwickshire, the third son of Spencer Compton, second earl of Northampton...
Intimate diaries and banal letters live on in France's library of secrets. Archive of unpublished biographies and scrapbooks dates back to 19th century By...
http://www.pepysdiary.com/about/archive/2008/12/31/9572.php Just a quick one... I recently added links next to diary entries when there was a letter written...
I'll post something in Site News about this before long, but a sneak peek for you... I just made a new page in the Encyclopedia which displays Pepys' wealth as...
Horrible histories theory of the stinky seamen who blew up HMS London with methane. Will Pavia From The Times, December 26, 2008 The explosion resounded across...
THE WILD SIDE - NYTimes blog by Olivia Judson December 23, 2008, 10:00 pm The Ten Days of Newton Some years ago, the evolutionist and atheist Richard Dawkins...
Photographs of six of a series of 16 topographical sequential panoramic tinted drawings of the Thames by Samuel Scott (1701/2–72), probably executed c. 1740,...
Surveying London: Why the city, in all its oddity and variety, deserves the full encyclopedic treatment Rosemary Ashton Ben Weinreb, Christopher Hibbert, Julia...
The author Andrew Godsell recently got in touch having written 'Legends of British History' and he offered the book’s biographical sketch of Pepys for...
Milton, John (1608-1674), poet and polemicist, was born at 6.30 a.m. on Friday 9 December 1608 in the house at the sign of the Spread Eagle, Bread Street,...
Hi, Has anyone been getting errors when trying to preview or post annotations? At least one person has been getting errors that say "An error occurred. close...
This story was part of the 17c English adventure into the Americas. ... 'Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean' by Edward Kritzler ... To escape the reach of the...
November 30, 2008, The Sophisticated Table, By CAROLINE WEBER A REVOLUTION IN TASTE The Rise of French Cuisine, 1650-1800 By Susan Pinkard Illustrated. 317 pp....
