Diary
by Samuel Pepys · first published 1825
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Samuel Pepys (23 February 1633 – 26 May 1703) was an administrator of the navy of England and Member of Parliament. The detailed private diary that Pepys kept from 1660 until 1669 is one of the most important primary sources for the English Restoration period. It provides a combination of personal revelation and eyewitness accounts of great events, such as the Great Plague of London, the Second Dutch War, and the Great Fire of London. Pepys recorded his daily life for almost ten years. Pepys has been called the greatest diarist of all time due to his frankness in writing concerning his own
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on “The Great British Reading List” ↗…probably generally talking upper middle class to upper class (and to some extent their domestic servants). The working and agricultural class simply couldn't afford fashion. If you read Samuel Pepys' Diary, from the mid-17th century (highly recommended; it's a fascinating view into the surprisingly familiar/alien world of the past), you'll notice that as Sam goes from a middle-class civil servant to the…
on “Great Male Renunciation” ↗Sorry - what sites. Stand outs for me are Samuel Pepys Diary - now over a year into it. Feed aligned with weekday and approx date. Ian Visits - great serendipitous resource for Londoners. https://www.pepysdiary.com/ https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/
on “Ask HN: How many RSS feeds do you subscribe to?” ↗…Diaries, Samuel Pepys Falling Off the Map, Pico Iyer A Time of Gifts, Patrick Leigh Fermor The Lonely Sea and the Sky, Francis Chichester The Way We Live Now, Anthony Trollope Bevis, Richard Jeffries The Diary of a Nobody, George and Weedon GrossSmith The Inimitable Jeeves, PG Wodehouse Hitch-22, essaysChristopher Hitchens Collected Essays, William Hazlitt Venice, Martin Gayford The Ascent of Man, Jacob…
on “Ask HN: What are the best books you've ever read?” ↗…Samuel Pepys Falling Off the Map, Pico Iyer A Time of Gifts, Patrick Leigh Fermor The Lonely Sea and the Sky, Francis Chichester The Way We Live Now, Anthony Trollope Bevis, Richard Jeffries The Diary of a Nobody, George and Weedon GrossSmith The Inimitable Jeeves, PG Wodehouse Hitch-22, essays, Christopher Hitchens Collected Essays, William Hazlitt Venice, Martin Gayford The Ascent of Man, Jacob…
on “Ask HN: What are the best books you've ever read?” ↗Yep! Glad you’re enjoying it. Here are my share of the SE productions: https://www.robinwhittleton.com/books/ Biggest so far (and biggest on SE at 1.2m words) has been Samuel Pepys’ Diary: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/samuel-pepys/the-diary
on “Arabian Nights” ↗I mean, it really wasn't, either. Read Samuel Pepys' Diary. He's rich for most of the period covered (it starts at about the point that he starts becoming rich, largely through bribery), and it sounds... I mean, like not a lot of fun.
on “Great Male Renunciation” ↗…laws dictated what colour and type of clothing, furs, fabrics, and trims were allowed to persons of various ranks or incomes. That said, I would wonder how strictly these were enforced. Samuel Pepys' Diary would imply not very, at least towards the end; Sam's a rich commoner, but doesn't seem to hold back when it comes to fancy clothes (anyone who doubts that men were into fashion back then should give…
on “Great Male Renunciation” ↗