Maps not working temporarily
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.
Site News
News about this site and other Pepys-related events.
'Great Fire of London' TV drama
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.
Pepys marriage event at St Olave's
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:
Pepys Diary erasure project
Diary readers might find these blog posts intriguing.
Diary emails and RSS feed fixed
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.
Anti-spam measures
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.
Annotations can be posted again
It’s taken longer than I hoped, but it’s now possible to post annotations/comments again.
Annotations update
It’s been a little while since my previous post about the new site, so here’s an update.
Welcome to the new (unfinished) site
Welcome to the new website, just in time for 1st January. The diary entries will be appearing each day on the front page from 11pm (London time) on 1st January 2013, starting with 1st January 1660. The RSS feed and daily emails should also start working again.
Annotations switched off
I’m experimenting with a few things on the site, with the aim of starting it running again in the New Year. To make this easier for me — and because very few annotations have been posted recently — I’ve turned off the ability to post annotations for a while.