Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
News about this site and other Pepys-related events.
18 December 2014
Those of you who like audiobooks but have had to make do with abridged versions of Samuel Pepys’ diary will be pleased to hear about a new release from Naxos of the entire diary. Quite an undertaking!
28 July 2014
For those of you who like to have the latest version to hand, I’ve updated the family tree.
7 July 2014
BBC Radio 4 has an episode of their Playlist Series focused on the music that Pepys enjoyed. Here’s the blurb:
5 May 2014
The maps in the Encyclopedia are back now.
2 May 2014
Maps in the Encyclopedia section currently aren’t displaying due to some confusion with Mapbox that provides them. Hopefully they’ll be back in the next day or two.
5 March 2014
Via Terry Foreman in the discussion group comes the news that the ITV channel in the UK is going to make a drama called The Great Fire of London, to be broadcast on four consecutive days.
6 October 2013
St Olave’s church, the Pepys’ local church during the diary period, is hosting an event run by Unity Arts on the evening of Thursday. 10th October 2013, focused around Samuel and Elizabeth’s marriage:
27 July 2013
Diary readers might find these blog posts intriguing.
3 March 2013
If you read the diary entries by email or RSS you might have noticed it’s been quiet for the past few days, but it should be back now.
20 February 2013
It only took seven hours after opening up registrations for our first spammer to sign up. I suppose one must admire their speed. So far that account is the only of several spammers that has posted an annotation (since deleted). I’ve disabled those accounts but that doesn’t stop more spammers registering.