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NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Phil Gyford about his online project "The Diary of Samuel Pepys." Pepys, who lived from 1633 to 1703, began his diaries on New Year's Day in 1660.

Pepys' descriptive powers are legendary, his wit subtle yet readily apparent. The diary cites the year 1659/1660 because in those days, the New Year did not start until 25 March.

Thanks to weblogs, online forums and personal websites, future historians (near future, anyway) are likely to have access to an overabundance of fi ...

We’re used to studying excerpts from famous journals in school; the diary of the young 17th Century British naval administrator Samuel Pepys, published over a hundred years after his death, is ...

On April 30, 1665 – 355 years ago today – a high-ranking British government official named Samuel Pepys ended the day’s diary entry with an ominous sentence: “Great fears of the Sicknesse ...

The Diary of Our Own Samuel Pepys, 1911-1935. By Simeon Strunsky. March 1936 Issue. Share. ... This Pepys, in other words, has the charm of an old family album, and this is said in all praise.

Pepys mentions his eye problems more than 100 times in the diary, they write. The modern researchers aren’t the first to try and figure out what was wrong with the diarist’s eyes.

He was most famous, however, for recording a daily diary for nearly 10 years starting in 1660. ... Screenshots of this, attributed to Samuel Pepys in 1664, ...