Samuel Pepys (1633–1703), the famous English diarist and naval administrator, had a penchant for fancy French clothes - although he described a fellow France-loving Englishman as 'an absolute ...

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.

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. After faithfully writing almost nightly for nine years, noted ...

Samuel Pepys’s fashion prints cast light on his attitudes after his diaries - Less is known about the second half of the diarist’s life, up to his death in 1703 aged 70.

Samuel Pepys Was England’s First Blogger The famed blogger—okay, diarist—told historians so much about 17th-century daily life in England, but he could have told us so much more ...

In July 2020, a quote ostensibly written in 1665 by Samuel Pepys, dubbed the world's greatest diarist by some, started to circulate on social media. The passage lamented how "gadabouts" (defined ...

Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self By Claire Tomalin Knopf, 470 pages, $30 Three hundred years ago next May, Samuel Pepys died near London after a phenomenally productive life of seven decades.

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.

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 ...

During a different pandemic, one 17th-century British naval administrator named Samuel Pepys did just that. He fastidiously kept a diary from 1660 to 1669 – a period of time that included a ...

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 ...