In-Depth Articles
This section of the site provides an opportunity to write and discuss longer articles on broader topics that might not fit in regular annotations or the Encyclopedia.
Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
This section of the site provides an opportunity to write and discuss longer articles on broader topics that might not fit in regular annotations or the Encyclopedia.
If you would like to contribute an article on any topic related to Pepys or the period in which he lived just email phil [at] gyford [dot] com
John Evelyn also kept his diary during the events of September 1666 and, given their length, it seems appropriate to give them a home here. The diary entries below are taken from this source (mirror). I’ve included all of Evelyn’s relevant entries, so, if you know nothing about what happens during the Fire, some of the below might count as SPOILERS!
5 comments | Permalink | Wednesday 2 September 2009
As you know, on days when John Evelyn and Pepys exchanged letters, there’s now a link to the relevant letter on this site. The letters are also often posted in the annotations for that day’s diary entry, but as one of Evelyn’s letters to Pepys for 26 March 1666 is long and has a lot of tabular data, Terry Foreman had the good idea of posting it in the In-Depth Articles section. So here is the exchange of four letters for today:
7 comments | Permalink | Thursday 26 March 2009
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 publication here. It covers his whole life (and beyond) so there are “spoilers” towards the end if you don’t know what’s coming. Otherwise I hope you enjoy this overview of Sam’s life. You can buy Legends of British History at Amazon.co.uk.
14 comments | Permalink | Friday 12 December 2008
In the year 1664 we celebrated the mid-point of Sam’s Diary, perhaps with a mixture of happiness for all of the time shared together and a touch of sadness too, as we know that in a few years the Diary will end.
2 comments | Permalink | Tuesday 25 December 2007