But one man wrote everything down in a private book, a diary. His name was Samuel Pepys. Samuel started to write, around 1660, about the things he did and who he saw. He lived in London and began ...

Some people credit Samuel Pepys with using a code but in fact he was writing ... some of his more discreditable exploits, but his wife Elizabeth was unlikely to read his diary anyway.

So is there a holy grail of diary writing ... Samuel Pepys wrote a diary from 1660 to 1669. He witnessed some amazing historical events, including the 1666 Great Fire of London. His diary is ...

Newsof the fire spread too,and it reached a mancalled Samuel Pepys -who worked for the kingand liked to write in his diary Dear diary, today is Sunday.Hmm. What else can I say? Excuse me Mr Pepys ...

MAGDALENE COLLEGE, Cambridge, with which the name of Samuel ... Diary it appears that the first proposal that Pepys should join that Society was made to him in the spring of the year 1662 by his ...

Learn the song 'London's burning', which has some specially-written additional words. Then hear about the start of The Great Fire in Thomas Farrynor’s bakery on Pudding Lane and listen to ...

We also hear from Samuel Pepys' about the terrible plague in London in the previous year (1665) in extracts from his diaries and visit Thomas Farrynor’s bakery in Pudding Lane, where the Great ...

Then hear about the start of The Great Fire in Thomas Farrynor’s bakery on Pudding Lane and listen to extracts from the famous diary of Samuel ... Pepys describes how he is woken in the night by ...