In the sweltering London summer of 1666, fire breaks out in Thomas Farriner’s bakery. In the sweltering London summer of 1666, Samuel Pepys curries favor with King Charles II, whose chief of ...

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On this day in 1666, the worst blazes of the Great Fire of London engulfed the City, creating, in the words of Samuel Pepys, “the saddest sight of desolation” he ever saw. Eliot Wilson tells us more ...

We have always known Pepys liked the occasional bit of nooky with a prostitute in an alley off Fleet Street, on his way home to his wife Elizabeth in Seething Lane. But if like me you have always ...

We have always known Samuel Pepys liked the occasional bit of nooky with a prostitute in an alley off Fleet Street, on his way home to his wife Elizabeth in Seething Lane. But if like me you have ...

As the City prepares to celebrate its second annual Pepys Day, Michael Mainelli tells us why the diarist is worth celebrating – with lots of champagne Friday, 5 September 2025, marks the second annual ...