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A fair amount of what the world knows of 17th century London was captured by one man. For 10 years, Samuel Pepys made daily entries in a shorthand common to scholars of the day.

The text we have used for Pepys’ diary has been taken from a 1893 edition, edited by Henry B Wheatley. This version, and others since, has been translated from Samuel Pepys’ original shorthand ...

THE original Samuel Pepys wrote his secret diary in shorthand and was not deciphered until several centuries after his death, but ‘F. P. A.’ has worn his heart on his sleeve in the pages of ...

Readers of the diary of Samuel Pepys know the intimate scenes that pop out so unexpectedly among the humdrum entries on office work and financial difficulties— such passages as Pepys's ...

SAMUELS PEPYS : THE YEARS of PERIL —Arthur Bryant—Macmillan ($3.50). Because Samuel Pepys took snapshots of himself in various revealing postures and the negatives were discovered and ...

I first encountered the diary of Samuel Pepys in 1958, when I was 10. It is the book that has informed – I might almost say "defined" – my whole life. Because of it, since 1 January 1959 I ...

It was an event that changed the face of London forever. Howard Timberlake retraces the footsteps of Samuel Pepys during the Great Fire of London through his vivid and detailed diary entries. Born ...