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Samuel Pepys
Samuel Pepys was an English writer and Tory politician. He served as an official in the Navy Board and Member of Parliament, but is now most renowned for the diary he kept for almost a decade, first published in the 19th century and one of the most important primary sources of the Stuart Restoration.
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Born 23 February 1633 · Died 26 May 1703 · Q106143
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2026· 6 entries
Keighley News: Haworth event to explore fictional take on Samuel Pepys
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Telegraph and Argus: Award-winning author brings new Samuel Pepys murder mystery to Yorkshire
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Wall Street Journal: ‘The Confessions of Samuel Pepys’ Review: An Uncensored Diarist
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The Guardian: Pepys ‘curated’ letters to conceal being offered enslaved boy as bribe – research
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Phys.org: Samuel Pepys censored his links to slavery, new study reveals
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2025· 1 entry
The Guardian: The Confessions of Samuel Pepys by Guy de la Bédoyère review – journal of a predator
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2024· 3 entries
The Guardian: Samuel Pepys: diarist, administrator … budding fashionista
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Phys.org: Samuel Pepys' fashion prints reveal his guilty pleasure: Fancy French clothes
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London Evening Standard: Samuel Pepys’s fashion prints cast light on his attitudes after his diaries
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2022· 1 entry
The Guardian: And so to bed with Samuel Pepys | Brief letters
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2021· 2 entries
The Guardian: Neat enough for Pepys: Magdalene college Cambridge’s inventive new library
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Gyford noted the existence of the Samuel Pepys Twitter account; set up in 2008, the account similarly serialises Pepys' diary each day
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2020· 2 entries
Moviefone: The Private Life of Samuel Pepys - Where to Watch
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Snopes rated the claim “Samuel Pepys wrote about taverns being full of gadabouts during a plague in 1665.” False.
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2019· 1 entry
The Guardian: Silver plate found to belong to 17th century diarist Samuel Pepys
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2018· 3 entries
The Guardian: 17c review – a ponderous evening with Mrs Pepys
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The Guardian: 17c review – rollicking 21st-century take on Samuel Pepys
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The Guardian: Dancing to the diary of Samuel Pepys – in pictures
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2017· 2 entries
The Guardian: The Curious World of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn by Margaret Willes review – in pursuit of knowledge
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The Guardian: The 100 Best Nonfiction Books of All Time: No 92 – The Diary of Samuel Pepys (1660)
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2016· 2 entries
The Guardian: Tromba marina: the instrument that gave Pepys a real buzz
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BBC: Retrace Samuel Pepys’ steps in the Great Fire of London
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2015· 1 entry
The Guardian: My highlight: the Samuel Pepys: Plague, Fire, Revolution exhibition by Michael Prodger
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2003· 2 entries
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Samuel Pepys Diary - Part Two (Illnesses and Death)
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A television film, The Private Life of Samuel Pepys aired on BBC2, in which Steve Coogan played Pepys
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1974· 1 entry
Richard Ollard produced a new biography that drew on Latham's and Matthew's work on the text, benefiting from the author's deep knowledge of Restoration politics
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1958· 1 entry
The BBC produced a serial called The Diary of Samuel Pepys, in which Peter Sallis played the title role
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1875· 1 entry
By Mynors Bright and published in 1875–1879
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1703· 1 entry
Died 1703-05-26.
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1684· 1 entry
Career landmark: President of the Royal Society (1684–1686).
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1673· 3 entries
Career landmark: Member of Parliament in the Parliament of England (1673–1689).
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Career landmark: Member of Parliament in the Parliament of England (1673–1679).
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Career landmark: Member of the 1661-79 Parliament (1673).
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1633· 1 entry
Born 1633-02-23.
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