The English polymath Robert Hooke is known for his investigations into life too small for us to see. But his contributions to ...

Hooke’s illustration appears in “Micrographia” (1665), a volume of fold-out plates accompanied by prose so captivating that it kept the diarist Samuel Pepys up reading all night. Hooke ...

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The famous diarist, Samuel Pepys, even wrote about the barbaric act, “urged by her father to marry her, he most wickedly and barbarously murdered her." Genevieve Tudor and Marko Ivanovic and ...

Samuel Pepys' diaries, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s unfinished "The Last Tycoon" and both "Northanger Abbey" and "Persuasion" by Jane Austen were all released this way. From our morning news briefing ...

There’s a scene in the coming-of-a-certain-age novel All Fours when Miranda July describes an exquisite hotel room, the kind ...

2. What happened during The Great Fire of London? We learn how the fire spread across the city and how the Lord Mayor, Samuel Pepys and King Charles II were involved alongside ordinary citizens.

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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 ...

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 ...