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44 days ago

A consultation was held after a recent transcription of lesser-known parts of Pepys diary resurrected accounts of his serial philandering and rape. Critics said it was an attempt to 'erase history'.

87 days ago

Hinchingbrooke School, in Huntindgon, Cambridgeshire, was attended by the chronicler of the Great Fire of London in the 1640s.

6 months ago

Samuel Pepys was a serial adulterer, a sex addict, a coercive predator, and a rapist, newly transcribed extracts from his diaries reveal.

The Benson Diary by AC Benson review – musings of an Edwardian elitist

At four million words he beats Pepys, but the daily jottings of a judgmental don fail to transcend his rather stuffy millieu

AC Benson is remembered today, if at all, for having edited three volumes o…

Newly decoded extracts from his diaries expose the celebrated 17th-century diarist and naval administrator as a rapacious sexual predator

Samuel Pepys’s diary, which covers 1660 to 1669, is regarded a…

7 months ago

We've all asked ourselves the question: if the house is on fire, and people and pets are safe, what one item would you rescue? Diarist Samuel Pepys saved a £1,000 imported wheel of Parmigiano.

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