Books of revelation Oct 8, 2009
Samuel Pepys was a member of the British Parliament in the late 17th century ... Samuel Pepys was a member of the British Parliament in the late 17th century. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
What makes a truly great diary? Sep 9, 2009
Indiscreet, amusing, bitter and full of his eccentric private and home life, the diaries were compared by reviewers to those of Samuel Pepys ... Phil Gyford, a web designer by trade, decided in 2002 to post an entry from Samuel Pepys' diary, online, every day ... Confessing on a page - diarist Samuel Pepys and Jeff Jarvis. (BBC News -- UK)
Status overdose Aug 28, 2009
Will they have an entire generation of Anne Franks and Samuel Pepys to use in research. Not necessarily, says historian Orla Power. (BBC News -- UK)
Turned into blogs, classics get a fresh lease of life Mar 10, 2009
Welcome to the daily diary of Samuel Pepys, revisited now in arguably the internet's most improbable blog. For anyone who ever balked at ploughing through the diaries of one of Britain's greatest recorders of historic times, Pepys's observations are now appearing on the internet in easily digestible daily updates. (India Times, India -- Health/Science)
The Tech Lab Mar 6, 2009
By moving the slider, you can dial all the way back to the Blitz, or the time of Samuel Pepys, or the Londinium of 45AD.. It would be a fascinating - not to mention disorientating - experience. (BBC News -- Technology)
