For me, it’s the unexpurgated Diary of Samuel Pepys. Completing the 11-volume set challenges even the most dedicated, but the entries are so vivid and comprehensive that the readers feel almost ...

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.

It could be worse. Coronavirus isn’t bubonic plague. I realize that is scant consolation, in these times of economic and social devastation, but we do know one cheering thing about previous plagues, ...

The End of Samuel Pepys. Share full article. March 15, 1896. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from March 15, 1896, Page 30 Buy Reprints.

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 ...

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.

His name was Samuel Pepys. Samuel started to write, around 1660, about the things he did and who he saw. He lived in London and began writing his diary when he was 26.

Rumours that 1666 might prove to be an unlucky year, or even herald the end of the world, are of no concern to Samuel Pepys. He's far more interested in his new friend, Mrs Knipp.

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.

Samuel Pepys. Share full article. Dec. 3, 1893. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from December 3, 1893, Page 22 Buy Reprints. View on timesmachine.

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.