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...
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’...
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renewable, adj. and n. A. adj. 1. Capable of being renewed. 1661 R. BOYLE Hist. Fluidity & Firmness II. in Certain Physiol. Ess. 202 The Question would recur...
Breaking: OMG! Library of Congress acquires every Tweet ever Twittered Do we need 2 keep all these Tweets? What u-no-who had 4 bfast, when whos-its goes zzzzz....
Samuel Pepys and the 40 singers The Pepys Motet By Benjamin Till, Composer On 1 January 1660, a little-known clerk living in Westminster, wrote the first...
Hello, My interest in the Pepys comes from the fact that at one time I lived at Impington and have done a considerable amount of research into the history of...
The Restoration Warship: The Design, Construction and Career of a Third Rate of Charles II's Navy Superbly researched and expertly illustrated, this study...
For all those interested in the 'how' of the re-building after the Great Fire: Compass and Rule:Architecture as Mathematical Practice in England 1500-1750. For...
Hi, Every so often someone emails me to ask what version of the diary they should read - searching on Amazon or similar is a bit bewildering, with so many...
http://www.pepysdiary.com/about/archive/2010/02/13/10893.php The Pepys Motet ... St Olave’s Church are commissioning composer Benjamin Till to help them...
Josselin, Ralph (1617–1683), Church of England clergyman and diarist, was born on 26 January 1617 at Roxwell in Essex, the first son and third child of John...
Hi, I've just upgraded the Movable Type software on PepysDiary.com - hopefully everything is still working OK, but there's usually something I've missed that's...
Walker, Sir Edward (1612-1677), herald, was born on 24 January 1612 at Roobers, Nether Stowey, Somerset, the second son of Edward Walker (d. 1635/6) of...
http://www.pepysdiary.com/about/archive/2010/01/15/10764.php Site News: More Pepys talks at St Olave's Samuel Pepys’ local church near the Tower of London,...
I just want to draw attention to the app on the iTunes Store which contains the Diary that w have just put up. We developed it to test out some ideas about how...
Dan Cruickshank on the Pepys London walk Follow London, old and new - 350 years after the diarist Samuel Pepys began his startling account of events high and...
Victorian man's London diary put online The private diary of a Victorian clerk is to be serialised online more than 160 years after it was written. The...
The art of diary writing January signals not only the arrival of a new year – for many, it will also open another chapter of obsessive diary-writing. What...
Isaac Newton: Who He Was, Why Google Apples Are Falling Kate Ravilious in York, England for National Geographic News January 4, 2010 Today on the Google home...
Hi, I just posted a summary of statistics about the site, mainly about 2009... lots of graphs and things so there's not much point me pasting the text into an...
ALBANY — Henry Hudson bobblehead? Check. One-legged Peter Stuyvesant statuette? Yes. A mirror emblazoned with the logo of New Amsterdam beer? Absolutely. ...
This recipe for a sweet, creamy dessert similiar to syllabub comes from a ca. 1610 recipe book compiled by English housewife Sarah Longe. To make Snow. Take a...
Pepys ballad collection is of major significance for texts, Sharp is one major source of vernacular tune survivals: " ... Here we offer a new and very...
L'Estrange, Sir Roger (1616-1704), author and press censor, was born on 17 December 1616 at Hunstanton Hall, Norfolk, the third son of Sir Hamon L'Estrange...
