Hogstow Mill in the Hope Valley is hiding a gruesome secret. In February 1683 the mill was the scene of a tragic murder that ...

When the wind eventually dropped and the flames finally guttered out, the devastation was clear to see, causing the famed diarist Samuel Pepys to state that it was “the saddest sight of ...

we’d understand a lot less about London society in 17th-century England without the rich historical source material of Samuel Pepys’s diary. But I do think we need to start examining why we ...

Samuel Pepys' diaries, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s unfinished ... we would not have Franz Kafka's "The Trial", the poems of Emily Dickinson or "The Diary of Anne Frank", said fashion and arts magazine ...

That's the way to do it! Covent Garden's May Fayre & Puppet Festival is back for 2025. The free, family-friendly event celebrates the anniversary of the first recorded sighting of Mr Punch, an ...

We'll encounter Samuel Pepys and learn how he documented The Fire in his famous diary. And we'll meet Christopher Wren, a key figure in the design and building of a new city. A gallery of images ...

Back then, tea was a rare drink that very few consumed. The famous diarist Samuel Pepys wrote about his first tea experience in 1660 with the entry “and afterwards I did send for a cup of tee (a ...