SAMUEL Pepys was a man who looked out of his London window and saw England's destiny unfurl before his eyes. Few can have been as blessed as this most revered of chroniclers, this man who ...

Pepys, an intimate portrait of the great diarist, naval strategist and adulterer, starts filming for BBC TWO. Steve Coogan plays Samuel Pepys, naval strategist and serial adulterer, in the first ...

Image caption, Portrait of Samuel Pepys in 1689, by Sir Godfrey Kneller Samuel Pepys: Plague, Fire, Revolution can be seen at the National Maritime Museum , Greenwich, London from 20 November 2015 ...

The Curious World of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn. By Margaret Willes. Yale University Press; 282 pages; $27.50 and £20. SAMUEL PEPYS and John Evelyn were among the most determinedly inquisitive ...

Samuel Pepys: Plague, Fire, Revolution, ... for the only whiff is a languorous nude portrait of Nell Gwyn, Charles II’s mistress — and that’s too beautiful to qualify.

The book is therefore a sort of ‘Pepys Made Easy, ‘ a short cut to the mastery of an immensely complicated biographical topic. There is nobody else so well qualified to perform this task as Mr ...

On a December day in 1659, Samuel Pepys, a low-level civil servant in Restoration England, purchased a plain 282-page notebook in which he planned to keep a journal. ”It was an unpromising ...