Samuel Pepys' Playlist on BBC Radio 4

7 July 2014

BBC Radio 4 has an episode of their Playlist Series focused on the music that Pepys enjoyed. Here’s the blurb:

Maps are working again

5 May 2014

The maps in the Encyclopedia are back now.

Maps not working temporarily

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.

'Great Fire of London' TV drama

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.

Pepys marriage event at St Olave's

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:

Pepys Diary erasure project

27 July 2013

Diary readers might find these blog posts intriguing.

Diary emails and RSS feed fixed

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.

Anti-spam measures

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.