"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...
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Peter Easton
phe_tryagain
Feb 20, 2009 7:42 am
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...
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Michael Robinson
robinsonmf
Feb 20, 2009 2:12 pm
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...
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Hugh Yeman
hughyeman
Feb 20, 2009 2:52 pm
I find myself particularly inclined to shout "The Emperor has no clothes!" That the English, by 1588, had developed uniform gunnery that was decades ahead of...
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Michael Robinson
robinsonmf
Feb 20, 2009 6:03 pm
Well, neither am I an expert, but they do seem to be overstating a little. I think the question is the discovery of an actual armament 'in place' that is "of...
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Richard Histon
rhiston
Feb 21, 2009 10:45 am
Many thanks for that. I always prefer hardbacks, so have just bought the hardback off ebay for 4.99! Can anyone recommend a good book on the plague? Preferably...
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timberloo22
Feb 24, 2009 7:17 pm
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...
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Richard Histon
rhiston
Feb 26, 2009 12:32 am
Many thanks, I got a hardback version from Amazon, looking forward to getting it. I also have The Great Plague by Walter George Bell ISBN 1 85891 218 0 pub....
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Phil Gyford
gyford
Feb 26, 2009 9:10 am
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...
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Michael Robinson
robinsonmf
Mar 4, 2009 7:16 pm
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...
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Barbara Howard
barh2004
Mar 5, 2009 7:08 pm
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...
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Richard Histon
rhiston
Mar 5, 2009 7:36 pm
Speaking of BBC TV I was very disappointed a couple of weeks ago to turn on part way through Mastermind. Only to find that a chap had just finished his...
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Phil Gyford
gyford
Mar 9, 2009 3:17 pm
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...
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Todd Bernhardt
beat_town
Mar 9, 2009 4:51 pm
I pointed that out earlier today ... hopefully they'll publish it. It's too bad they mix up a useful site like the Pepys Diary with the frivolous approaches to...
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Susan Thomas
susan.thomas@...
Mar 9, 2009 10:01 pm
When I opened the ST article, your letter is first in the comments Todd - well done on our behalf! I agree with PG - why didn't they contact him? Part of the...
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Michael Robinson
robinsonmf
Mar 12, 2009 11:15 pm
No mention of him in L&M's Index (vol. 11) but hard to believe SP did not at least know him by sight at the Royal Society meetings: Glisson, Francis...
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Terry Foreman
thforeman
Mar 13, 2009 4:00 am
Perhaps Hooke's Minutes/Pepys's Diary will put them at the same meeting(s) of the Royal Society....
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Susan Thomas
susan.thomas@...
Mar 13, 2009 9:24 am
Having read the biog, (which was very interesting, showing him to be a meticulous observer, but hampered by the technology of his time), I think he was just...
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Phil Gyford
gyford
Mar 23, 2009 2:48 pm
http://www.pepysdiary.com/about/archive/2009/03/23/9833.php This afternoon I was on BBC Radio Scotland’s Book Café, talking about the Pepys’ Diary...
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Phil Gyford
gyford
Mar 23, 2009 5:39 pm
http://www.pepysdiary.com/about/archive/2009/03/23/9834.php Last year St Olave, Pepys’ local church, held a series of talks. They’re doing the same again...
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Todd Bernhardt
beat_town
Mar 24, 2009 12:10 am
You sounded fine to me, Phil! I think you presented yourself very well ... don't want to be over-enthusiastic, after all. As Joni Mitchell says, "Play it cool,...
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Pauline Benson
staros2paros
Mar 24, 2009 2:15 am
You were real, Phil. The breathless hostess, moving her show along and being quippy, didn't seem to have a clue about the site (as far as I know it's not been...
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deneaultb
Mar 25, 2009 10:30 pm
In his 24 December 1666 entry, Pepys spells Guildhall as Yildhall. William Matthews footnotes: "Guildhall (common pronunciation-spelling)." My question: would...
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timberloo22
Mar 26, 2009 1:29 pm
The form Yildhall/Yeeldhall is attested at various times throughout the 17th century and looks back to the Old English palatalization of guttural consonants...
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timberloo22
Mar 27, 2009 7:43 am
By "attested"; I mean that the 'Y' form appears in a number of 17th century word-books and so I take it that it was a relatively common, though perhaps not...
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Michael Robinson
robinsonmf
Mar 28, 2009 11:49 am
NY Times Exhibition Review | Folger Shakespeare Library Catching Some Z's in Days of Yore By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN WASHINGTON — In one of the displays at the...
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Terry Foreman
thforeman
Mar 28, 2009 5:04 pm
Michael, That's a great story and apropos. Thanks for the link to it. Terry Foreman...
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Susan Thomas
susan.thomas@...
Mar 28, 2009 10:19 pm
Thanks from me too, Michael! Reminds us what a very different world view from us Sam held. A.S....
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Phil Gyford
gyford
Mar 30, 2009 10:44 am
Hi, I've posted it as an annotation on the site, but I thought I'd just point out this article about football/soccer in Pepys' time here, seeing as it also...
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Michael Robinson
robinsonmf
Apr 6, 2009 11:20 am
Chiffinch [Cheffin], Thomas (1600-1666), courtier and royal official, was born at Salisbury, Wiltshire. He was brought to the court of Charles I by Brian...
