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Samuel Pepys diary Despite his many accomplishments, Samuel is probably best known for his diary which he updated daily from 1660 until 1669 — with the document first published in the 19th century.
He's one of England's most famous diary-keepers, but Samuel Pepys had a secret love of French fashion, a new study claims. Fancy garments were the diarist's 'guilty pleasure', a University of ...
Samuel Pepys' diary (1660 to 1669) and later collections of fashion plates show that fashion trends were as important to men as women in the 17th Century A series of French fashion engravings ...
Samuel Pepys' diary (1660 to 1669) shone a spotlight on Restoration London, covering the ups and downs of his marriage, as well as events such as Charles II's coronation and the Great Fire of London.
The 17th century diarist Samuel Pepys’s collection of French fashion prints casts light on his attitudes to fashion in the period after he stopped keeping a diary, an academic has said.
A collection of French fashion engravings offers precious new insights into the life of Samuel Pepys years after his premature final diary entry. The prints show the tailor’s son remained ...
Pepys was infertile, perhaps owing to the operation on the bladder stone, but not impotent. To Pepys it was only a short walk from Deptford or the yard at Woolwich to Greenwich, or vice versa.