Samuel Pepys' diary (1660 to 1669) and later collections of fashion plates show that fashion trends were as important to men as women in the 17th Century A series of French fashion engravings ...

But one man wrote everything down in a private book, a diary. 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 ...

We also hear from Samuel Pepys' about the terrible plague in London in the previous year (1665) in extracts from his diaries and visit Thomas Farrynor’s bakery in Pudding Lane, where the Great ...