So far this year there are exhibitions about Pepys at the Public Record Office and at the Guildhall Library. Now the excellent Museum of London is getting in on the act with an exhibition focusing on the city during Pepys’ life. It runs from 8th May to 3rd November and the press release gives more information. (Thanks for the tip Queen Bee.)
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First Reading
Janet • Link
Also coming: Samuel Pepys & His Circle at the National Portrait Galley 31 March - 28 September (admission free) & British Library 1 May - 30 June (admission free)
Janet • Link
Samuel Pepys: a celebrated life is the subject of a seminar at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich on Saturday 31 May 10:30 - 4:15. Subjects include his private life, relationships with collegues & the Royal Family, working life, the Navy and major events he recorded with speakers from the Maritime Museum, British Library & Tower of London. Fee is
Glyn • Link
St Olave's Church (Pepys' own church) is also holding events from 27 to 30 May:
St Olave's, Hart Street, London EC4
www.web.sadds.btinternet.co.uk/Ha…
Tower Hill tube, Fenchurch Street rail
A WEEK OF CELEBRATION
27 May, 19.00
A Restoration Musical 'The Pepys Show', written and produced by Debbie Campbell and performed by the children of the Debbie Campbell Musical Theatre Group
Glyn • Link
More Pepys Events
All of the following are at the Museum of London, which is between the Barbican and St Pauls.
WED 28 MAY, 4, 11, 18 & 25 JUNE: TOURS, VIEWING PEPYS LONDON.
"3pm, 30 mins, free. Curator Hazel Forsythe introduces the ideas behind the exhibition and reveals some of the stories relating to Pepys and the objects on display."
THURS 8 MAY: DIARY OF A LONDONER
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David A. Smith • Link
The Museum of London Pepys exhibition is great!
Went yesterday, spent 45 minutes just in the Pepys exhibition, another two hours in the museum. Pepys was interested in shoes and ships and sealing wax, kings -- everything but cabbages!
Well worth checking out ... but no mention of www.pepysdiary.com. I recommended they install a computer with internet connections so users could link into that day's diary. Perhaps one of you London readers could pester the MoL to do so?