We have always known Pepys liked the occasional bit of nooky with a prostitute in an alley off Fleet Street, on his way home to his wife Elizabeth in Seething Lane. But if like me you have always ...
English diarist Samuel Pepys (1633), American writer and NAACP founder W.E. B. Du Bois (1868), German philosopher Karl Jaspers (1883) Happy reading. If you purchase a product or register for an ...
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 fascinated ...
IN Mr. Bradford’s practice of the art of ‘psychography’ he has established a method of biography which is very much his own. It is the method of the intrinsic rather than the extrinsic: it has much ...
Can any of your readers explain the principle of the scotoscope which Pepys defines in his diary (Aug. 13, 1664) as an instrument enabling objects to be viewed “in a dark room”? It seems scarcely ...
Libro en inglés 100 DIARIES THAT CHRONICLED WORLD EVENTS es una libro escrito por COLIN SALTER. Descubre todos los libros de ...
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Pepys Day: Raise a toast to London’s best diarist
As the City prepares to celebrate its second annual Pepys Day, Michael Mainelli tells us why the diarist is worth celebrating – with lots of champagne Friday, 5 September 2025, marks the second annual ...
Jean Dieu de Saint-Jean, Habit Noir (evening wear), etching c. 1670. A print collected by Samuel Pepys showing a fashionable elite Frenchman proudly wearing lace cuffs and ribbons. A collection of ...
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