http://www.pepysdiary.com/about/archive/2010/06/19/11336.php

Pauline Pepys - the sitcom


The BBC have a new radio sitcom in development called Pauline Pepys’ Dowry, with
the pilot episode set to be recorded this week.

There doesn’t seem to be much information around. The BBC’s site for getting
tickets to recordings says this:

"Olivia Colman, David Mitchell, Sharon Horgan, Katherine Parkinson, Tom
Hollander and Rebekah Staton star in a new situation comedy by Amy Shindler and
Beth Chalmers, produced by Gareth Edwards.

"London, 1660. Meet Pauline Pepys, less famous sister of Samuel. Her love life
is in tatters, her sister-in-law wants her to move out of the spare room, and
her best friend is her worst enemy. Oh, and there’s a nasty spot of plague
about.

"A new situation comedy about some age old problems."

I’m guessing that Pall will be played by Olivia Colman[1] (Mark’s
(ex-)girlfriend/wife Sophie in Peep Show) and Samuel is going to be[2] played by
David Mitchell (Peep Show’s Mark and comedy panel-show regular) which, I think,
could work quite well. All in all it sound like it could be fun.

No idea about when the show will be broadcast.



[1] http://www.oliviacolmanonline.co.uk/
[2] http://twitter.com/RealDMitchell/status/16237393449
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Mitchell_(actor)



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The Great Fire of London started accidentally in a bakery, right? That wasn't
the view at the time - many believed it was a terrorist attack and violent
reprisals against possible suspects soon followed.

Continued:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8772583.stm

How timely, Diary-wise, as just "yesterday" Pepys recalled the "provocation
at Schelling."


At 07:15 AM 7/1/2010 +0000, you wrote:
>The Great Fire of London started accidentally in a bakery, right? That
>wasn't the view at the time - many believed it was a terrorist attack and
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Not just the BBC; Channel Four showed this Tuesday night;
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-untold-great-fire-of-london/episode-guide\
/series-1/episode-1
Still available in the UK on 4onDemand.

http://twitter.com/mrssamuelpepys

There are several fictionalised characters, all created by the same anonymous
twitterer: http://twitter.com/samuelpepys/samuels-world/members


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Only caught this one by pure chance, it was discussed on the Radio 3
Early Music Show ...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/2010/whatson/0308.shtml


Rh

"In modern economic thinking, peace and prosperity go hand in hand. However,
there are good reasons why in pre-modern societies, the opposite relationship
held true – war, disease, and urban death spelled high incomes. This column
explains why Europe's rise to riches in the early modern period owed much to
exceptionally bellicose international politics, urban overcrowding, and frequent
epidemics."


Nico Voigtländer   Hans-Joachim Voth
Cruel windfall: How wars, plagues, and urban disease propelled Europe's rise to
riches
Vox 29 July 2009

"In the "Three Horsemen of Riches", we ask how Europe got to be rich in the
first place. Our answer is best summarised by the smuggler Harry Lime, played by
Orson Welles in the 1948 classic "The Third Man": "In Italy, for thirty years
under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed, but they
produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland,
they had brotherly love; they had 500 years of democracy and peace – and what
did that produce? The cuckoo clock."

Continued:
http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/3823

[VoxEU.org is a policy portal set up by the Centre for Economic Policy Research
(www.CEPR.org) in conjunction with a consortium of national sites. Vox aims to
promote research-based policy analysis and commentary by leading scholars. The
intended audience is economists in governments, international organisations,
academia and the private sector as well as journalists specializing in
economics, finance and business]

Who was the man behind the diaries, Samuel Pepys?
By Trevor Timpson
BBC News
It is 350 years since one of the UK's most famous diarists put pen to paper. But
what was Samuel Pepys really like? And why did this modest clerk become so
celebrated?

Continued:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-10273445

Hi,

The company that runs the pepysdiary.com webserver will be doing some
maintenance on that computer today. It should only be unavailable for up to 30
minutes, and should be back as normal afterwards. Hopefully you won't even
notice!

Phil


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Aphorisms from the great C17th. Jesuit delivered daily by e-mail:

"Welcome to Balthasar Gracian's "The Art of Worldly Wisdom" mailing list and
website. In the 1600s, Balthasar Gracian, a jesuit priest, wrote 300 aphorisms
on living life effectively called "The Art of Worldly Wisdom." The book stays
relevent to modern day society and has been used such as Machiavelli's "The
Prince" or Sun Tzu's "The Art of War" as a guidebook for everything from
business to sports.

This website is updated daily with a new aphorism that is also sent out via
email and RSS to our subscribers. For further reading consider this Balthasar
Gracian biography or this searchable version of "The Art of Worldly Wisdom"."
http://www.balthasargracian.com/

Baltasar Gracián y Morales, SJ (January 8, 1601 – December 6, 1658)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltasar_Graci%C3%A1n

The Pepys library contains:
Obras de Lorenzo Gracian,
Madrid: en Imprenta Real de la Santa Cruzada … 1674
4to., 2 vols in one. PL 1541

The Critic … transl. into English by P. Rycaut.
London: T. N. for Henry Brome, 1681
PL 1106.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltasar_Gracián

seems to work.

At 05:45 PM 8/1/2010 +0000, you wrote:
>Aphorisms from the great C17th. Jesuit delivered daily by e-mail:
>
>"Welcome to Balthasar Gracian's "The Art of Worldly Wisdom" mailing list
>and website. In the 1600s, Balthasar Gracian, a jesuit priest, wrote 300
>aphorisms on living life effectively called "The Art of Worldly Wisdom."
>The book stays relevent to modern day society and has been used such as
>Machiavelli's "The Prince" or Sun Tzu's "The Art of War" as a guidebook
>for everything from business to sports.
>
>This website is updated daily with a new aphorism that is also sent out
>via email and RSS to our subscribers. For further reading consider this
>Balthasar Gracian biography or this searchable version of "The Art of
>Worldly Wisdom"."
>http://www.balthasargracian.com/
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>Baltasar Gracián y Morales, SJ (January 8, 1601 ­ December 6, 1658)
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltasar_Graci%C3%A1n
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>The Pepys library contains:
>Obras de Lorenzo Gracian,
>Madrid: en Imprenta Real de la Santa Cruzada … 1674
>4to., 2 vols in one. PL 1541
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>The Critic … transl. into English by P. Rycaut.
>London: T. N. for Henry Brome, 1681
>PL 1106.
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>Yahoo! Groups Links
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>No virus found in this incoming message.
>Checked by AVG - www.avg.com
>Version: 9.0.851 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/3043 - Release Date: 08/01/10
>01:34:00

Haddock, Sir Richard (c.1629–1715), naval officer, was the eldest of the four
sons of William Haddock (c.1607–1667) and his wife, Anna Goodlad (c.1611–1689),
of Leigh-on-Sea, Essex. ...

" .... On 2 February 1682 Haddock became controller of the navy, being
additionally appointed first commissioner of the victualling in 1683. The
reorganization of the Navy Board following the return of Samuel Pepys to the
Admiralty led to Haddock's effective demotion to commissioner for the old
accounts, a position which he held for the duration of Pepys's `special
commission' to reconstruct the navy, namely from April 1686 to 12 October 1688.
..."

For one week only at:
http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/1.html

There is no mention of Haddock in L&M volume XI - index.

Indeed, Hart is considered by many in technology and literary circles to be the creator of the electronic book. As founder of the Gutenberg Project, named for the 15th century printer credited with inventing movable type, Hart began transcribing and scanning books on July 4, 1971 -- "technically July 5," Hart corrected himself in an e-mail; "it was all night."

For Gutenberg the man, society has had six centuries to determine his role in publishing.

Things aren't as clear cut in e-books. In the '70s, the Palo Alto Research Center, owned by Xerox, was also working on digitizing literature with its Dynabook project.

But Project Gutenberg persists as a leader in the field, offering more than 33,000 out-of-copyright books as free downloads. They can be read on a computer, loaded onto a Kindle, or found on Apple's iBookstore for the iPad. (Apple approached Project Gutenberg directly for access to its catalog, and inquired about page design and errors in the text, Hart said.)

[more]  http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2010/08/project-gutenberg.html

Group wants to end setting dogs on chained bears

COLUMBIA, S.C. – A declawed, defanged bear is chained to a stake as hunting dogs bark and snap, trying to force the bear to stand on its hind legs. The training exercise called bear baying is intended to make the bears easier to shoot in the wild and it's only allowed in South Carolina.

Armed with new undercover video of four such events, the Humane Society of the United States is pressuring state officials to explicitly outlaw the practice, which the organization says is effectively banned in every other state. Animal rights advocates say it's cruel to the nearly defenseless bears and harms them psychologically.

Hunters say the exercise popular in the state's hilly northwestern corner helps them train their dogs on what to do when they come across a bear during a hunt.

But John Goodwin, the Humane Society's chief animal fighting expert, calls it "bear baiting" — a centuries-old bloodsport that is more for spectators' entertainment than instruction for dogs on what to do when they encounter wild bears.

[ more ]  http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100823/ap_on_re_us/us_bear_baying

Oldenburg,  Henry  [Heinrich]  (c.1619-1677), scientific correspondent and
secretary of the Royal Society, was born in the free city of Bremen, Germany,
one of two children of Heinrich Oldenburg (d. 1634), a teacher at the Bremen
Paedegogium and later a professor at Dorpat University. His ancestors,
originally from Munster, had been Calvinist teachers since the mid-sixteenth
century. Oldenburg's grandfather, also Heinrich, had repaired the buildings of
the vicaria of St Liborius at the protestant cathedral, in return for which he,
his son, and his grandson inherited an annual income of 100 reichsthaler, which
was paid only fitfully and precariously. ...

Continued (full text available for one week only):-
http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/

LONDON – It's been in print for over a century, but in future the Oxford English Dictionary — the authoritative guide to the English language — may only be available online.

Oxford University Press, the publisher, said Sunday that burgeoning demand for the dictionary's online version has far outpaced demand for the printed versions.

By the time the lexicographers behind the dictionary finish revising and updating the latest edition — a gargantuan task that will take many more years — publishers are doubtful there will still be a market for the printed form.

The online Oxford English Dictionary now gets 2 million hits a month from subscribers. The current printed edition — a hefty 20-volume, 750 pound ($1,165) set published in 1989 — has sold about 30,000 sets in total.

"At present we are experiencing increasing demand for the online product," a statement from the publisher said. "However, a print version will certainly be considered if there is sufficient demand at the time of publication."

.....

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100829/ap_on_bi_ge/eu_britain_dictionary_s_demise

Well I find it interesting that Sam Pepys mentions his wife burning her hand
when she cooks the turkey. It might be interesting if we have an annotation on
that. That he is in love with his wife or anxious about her is quite evident.
That she is a child - wife from our perspective is even more interesting. What
is worse is that she is just 29 when she dies.

How does she respond to Sam's flirtations?

Here is an interesting thought. Having been collecting books by/on Pepys
for many years (around 50 I think - books not years!), I have widened my
reading to his century and the events surrounding those fascinating times.

Whenever I am in a bookshop now, I tend to look at any new book
concerning those times, and immediately go to the back and see if Samuel
is indexed.

So has anyone ever produced a list of substantial "mentions" of Mr Pepys"?

Sometimes of course the mention is one sentence, and often very short.
But sometimes not just a sentence or two from the diary, a more
substantial amount with interest.

Of course it isn't just books, I have a few magazines of various types
mentioning our man.

Perhaps if there was such a list it would need to list the more
substantial mentions. Just mentioning "this was one of the haunts of
Samuel Pepys wouldn't count.

Just a thought!

Is anyone interested in swapping lists of Pepys books? I'm currently
cataloguing all my books using BookCat http://www.fnprg.com/bookcat/
I have no connection with the author, just that the program is great, as
is his other cataloguing programs.

Richard

http://www.pepysdiary.com/about/archive/2010/08/31/11583.php

Pepys in German, zweimal

Two big bits of news if you’re a German speaker, or know someone who is who
might also be interested in Pepys…

First, Haffmans & Tolkemitt have published the first complete translation of the
Latham & Matthews edition of the diary in a nine-volume box set. The description
says it includes a “companion”, but it’s only nine volumes, so I’m not sure if
there’s also a complete index. Still, that’s a lot of translation!
http://haffmans-tolkemitt.de/programm/die-tagebucher-1660-1669/

Second, Manfred Zeller has also begun translating and publishing the diary
andposting it online, day-by-day in the same fashion as PepysDiary.com. It will
be interesting to compare each day in the two languages (when we’ve worked out
the best method, I’ll probably be linking to each day from this site).
http://www.pepys-projekt.de/

So, pass this on if you have some German friends who might enjoy Sam’s world, or
if you fancy brushing up your German by reading something familiar…


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So, wie uebersetzt man "coxcomb" auf deutsch?