Samuel Pepys (1633–1703), the famous English diarist and naval administrator, had a penchant for fancy French clothes - although he described a fellow France-loving Englishman as 'an absolute ...

John Hayls, Portrait of Samuel Pepys, 1666, Oil on canvas, National Portrait Gallery, London.

We track Pepys’s astronomical rise from impoverished young hopeful to the most influential mandarin in the navy bureaucracy (Getty) One’s book of a lifetime should become a total obsession ...

How Samuel's diary gives us a first-hand account of everyday life in London in the 1660s. Find out more with BBC Bitesize KS1 History.

The 17th century diarist Samuel Pepys’s collection of French fashion prints casts light on his attitudes to fashion in the period after he stopped keeping a diary, an academic has said. The ...

A series of French fashion engravings reveal how Samuel Pepys remained fascinated by the power of fashion throughout his long life, according to a researcher. Best known for his diaries, the ...

Who but Pepys would have thought of solemnly recording the first sirloin of beef "that ever I had of mine own buying since I was a housekeeper," and what a pity it would have been had he not, or ...