"Oh, hello. I didn't see you there. I was just catching up on my latest diary entry." Wikimedia Commons Samuel Pepys kept a diary for just nine years. Thankfully for historians—if not for Pepys, who ...

1666: Samuel Pepys, writing in his famous diary, records the first description of a blood transfusion. Pepys (whose name is usually pronounced Peeps, or occasionally Peppis) was an able administrator ...

Phil Gyford talks about what he learned about writing, tweeting, and context from his just ended, nearly decade-long recreation of the famous diarist’s work. I had an online chat with Gyford (who news ...

Pupils and staff at a Cambridgeshire school have voted to remove the name of Samuel Pepys from one of its pastoral houses following revelations about the former pupil's treatment of women. Pepys House ...

New analysis of 17th-century diarist’s French fashion engravings shows he was not only a shrewd political operator but had a keen eye for new trends He may be best known for his juicy diary, ...

Claire Tomalin, biographer of Jane Austen and Mary Wollstonecraft, has taken the 17th-century diarist Samuel Pepys as her latest subject. The Bookseller Editorial Team Claire Tomalin, biographer of ...