Jan Kemp
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- The Time Traveller’s Guide to Restoration Britain by Ian Mortimer (28 February 2023)
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About Friday 25 October 1661
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Thanks for finding this John.
About Sunday 22 September 1661
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Memoirs of Louis XIV and his Court and of the Regency by the Duke of Saint-Simon is currently available as a free audiobook to members of Amazon's Audible. In UK at least.
About Friday 30 August 1661
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Re: Bill on 30 Jul 2014 • Link
The definition of a comedy in 1661 may not have been quite the same as ours.
COMEDY, a Play composed with Art either in Prose or Verse to represent some Action agreeable to human Life and not cruel.
---A Universal Etymological English Dictionary. N. Bailey, 1675.
As in RomCom? Not (intentionally) funny at all.
About Monday 5 August 1661
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COTON - “(place at) the cottages or huts”, from Old English ‘cot’, in the dative plural form ‘cotum’:
COTON Cambs, Cotis 1086 Domesday Book. -Oxford Dictionary of English Place Names 1998
About Tuesday 10 April 1660
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A note for anyone who, like me, has taken 20 years to find this fascinating site: The link cited by TerryF, above, still works (in the UK) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_new…
And those interested in the history of this history could also click the “see also” prompt on the right of the page.
How sad it is that so few of the first reading's links are still valid - and what an irony that Pepys work is still solid pen-and-ink while our work with it struggles to maintain integrity within modern technology.
Worth the struggle though - Pepys would have been astonished at our ability to maintain a community of interest and exploration in real time across continents.