Maps are working again
The maps in the Encyclopedia are back now.
Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
News about this site and other Pepys-related events.
The maps in the Encyclopedia are back now.
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.
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.
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:
Diary readers might find these blog posts intriguing.
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.
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.
It’s taken longer than I hoped, but it’s now possible to post annotations/comments again.
It’s been a little while since my previous post about the new site, so here’s an update.
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.