The Diary: Three Centuries of Private Lives January 21 through May 22, 2011 http://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/exhibition.asp?id=42 [No Pepys mentioned in...
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Phil Gyford
gyford
Jan 5, 2011 9:56 am
Hi, I just came across this page of quite high resolution period maps of London as PDFs and thought people here might be interested:...
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Joel Dinda
joeldinda
Jan 5, 2011 6:51 pm
Oh, neat. Thanks (as always), Phil....
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robinsonmf
Jan 10, 2011 12:41 am
Robinson, Sir John, first baronet (bap. 1615, d. 1680), merchant and financier, was baptized on 10 January 1615, the third but second surviving son of William...
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Phil Gyford
gyford
Jan 10, 2011 7:18 pm
Pepys' Diary iPhone app: new features http://www.pepysdiary.com/about/archive/2011/01/10/12037.php A year ago I mentioned in passing that there was an iPhone...
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Phil Gyford
gyford
Jan 13, 2011 10:45 pm
Diaries on ‘The One Show’ http://www.pepysdiary.com/about/archive/2011/01/13/12044.php I was on a TV programme on BBC One in the UK today, 'The One Show'...
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Phil Gyford
gyford
Jan 19, 2011 4:53 pm
http://www.pepysdiary.com/about/archive/2011/01/19/12079.php Pepys' Shows Last weekend, at Culture Hack Day <http://culturehackday.org.uk/> in London, Matthew...
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Phil Gyford
gyford
Jan 19, 2011 5:24 pm
http://www.pepysdiary.com/about/archive/2011/01/19/12080.php Celebrate Pepys' 378th birthday in Upperville, VA Andrew Hamilton writes about a meeting in...
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robinsonmf
Jan 21, 2011 2:12 pm
Much discussion of the mid and late C167th., incl. Evelyn's Acetaria (1699) The English diet has been mythologised as one of roasted meats and few vegetables...
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jameslarochemoore
jameslaroche...
Jan 21, 2011 4:35 pm
Hey everyone, I'm currently writing an undergraduate dissertation on the relation of poetry and music in the Interregnum/Restoration and how it had progressed...
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Phil Gyford
gyford
Jan 22, 2011 2:22 am
http://www.pepysdiary.com/about/archive/2011/01/22/12085.php Diary and Encyclopedia data available Those of you with a technological bent may be interested to...
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robinsonmf
Jan 22, 2011 8:57 pm
The Diary: Three Centuries of Private Lives January 21 through May 22, 2011 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016. 212) 685-0008 Morgan...
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robinsonmf
Jan 23, 2011 1:54 am
Pride and Piracy: Bartholomew Sharpe (ca. 1650–1690). As he terrorized Spanish towns and ships in the Americas, English pirate Bartholomew Sharpe kept a...
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terry foreman
thforeman
Jan 26, 2011 8:20 am
There's been nothing quite like it in the ancient Forest of Dean since the last time a Conservative government tried to privatise Britain's largest oak forest....
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robinsonmf
Jan 31, 2011 6:26 am
"Batavia Yard is a shipyard with extraordinary ambitions, reconstructing ships from the Golden Age that were important to the Netherlands39; maritime history....
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Phil Gyford
gyford
Jan 31, 2011 10:03 am
There's a review of the book 'William Petty and the Ambitions of Political Arithmetic39; by Ted McCormick in a recent issue of the London Review of Books,...
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terry foreman
thforeman
Jan 31, 2011 5:12 pm
Phil, Thank you for provising us that: a very interesting backstory to the developments of 'moral philosophy39; (I'm thinking esp. of John Locke, 1632-1704,...
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robinsonmf
Feb 1, 2011 10:36 am
Cultures of Knowledge is an interdisciplinary group of scholars working with partners in Britain and abroad to reconstruct the correspondence networks central...
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terry foreman
thforeman
Feb 2, 2011 7:42 pm
rb has tried to send this, in vain, and asked me to try. ... From: rb <broroger@...> Date: Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 10:21 AM Subject: Killings and...
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Phil Gyford
gyford
Feb 2, 2011 9:06 pm
I quoted a bit of that article I posted here a few days ago, about Sir William Petty, plus another interesting bit, here.... ...
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Mangrove Mike
jm387407
Feb 3, 2011 1:38 am
I was wondering if there are drawings of any of Petty's double-hulled ships still in existence....
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terry foreman
thforeman
Feb 3, 2011 6:33 am
"William Petty designed several twin-hulled ships between 1662 and 1684, Europe's first catamarans. "Initially they seemed promising. They were able to sail...
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Phil Gyford
gyford
Feb 3, 2011 6:31 pm
http://www.pepysdiary.com/about/archive/2011/02/03/12147.php Pepys family tree updated In 2008 I put together a family tree for the extended Pepys ancestry. A...
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jm387407
Feb 4, 2011 1:32 am
Thanks, Terry. As a former multihull sailor I found that drawing of the Experiment most interesting. I think if Petty had had access to modern materials, his...
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robinsonmf
Feb 8, 2011 4:23 pm
"Life and Law in Early Modern England," an exhibition marking the Centenary of the Elizabethan Club, is curated by Justin Zaremby with Mike Widener, and is on...
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Phil Gyford
gyford
Feb 16, 2011 10:49 pm
Hi, If you have a moment, I'd love it if you could fill in this short, three question survey for Pepys' Diary readers: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/WDPQRPP ...
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Phil Gyford
gyford
Feb 16, 2011 10:56 pm
And, I should have said... the survey is entirely anonymous! ... -- Phil Gyford http://www.gyford.com/...
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Phil Gyford
gyford
Feb 26, 2011 2:04 pm
I forgot to post this to the mailing list yesterday, when it appeared on the site, sorry. It'd be best to read it on the site, as there are graphs to see... ...
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robinsonmf
Feb 26, 2011 5:23 pm
Scarburgh, Sir Charles (1615–1694), physician and natural philosopher, son of Edmund Scarburgh, gentleman, of the parish of St Martin-in-the-Fields, and...
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robinsonmf
Feb 27, 2011 5:24 am
Child, Sir Josiah, first baronet (bap. 1631, d. 1699), economic writer and merchant, was baptized at St Bartholomew-by-the-Exchange, London, on 27 February...