Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
News about this site and other Pepys-related events.
You may remember our review a few years ago of Kate Loveman’s book Samuel Pepys and His Books. The only problem with the book at the time was the very high cost, £81. Today the paperback has been released and, while it’s not cheap, it’s cheaper at £30.
I think this is only available in the UK, as I can’t see it on Amazon.com. Do post in the comments if you find it available elsewhere.
I’ve made a few tweaks to the In-depth Articles section the first of which is to re-name it simply “Articles”.
Occasionally over the past year or two people have mentioned to me that the @SamuelPepys Twitter account features in a live show by the British comedian Bill Bailey. Last week I was finally able to watch the show – Larks in Transit – as it’s currently available on BBC iPlayer for the next year.
I’ve just opened up an API for accessing data from the site, something that might be useful to other developers. If you don’t know what an API (application programming interface) is, no need to worry, and you can safely ignore it!
NOTE: The Groups.io list described here was closed at the end of 2022 and replaced by one at Buttondown. See this Site News post for more info.
As mentioned in the previous post, I’ve changed the service used to send each day’s diary entry out by email, which means people need to subscribe to the new service (instructions here). The old service has now been switched off.
For years it’s been possible to receive “today’s” diary entry by email through the Feedburner service. That service is ending the email feature and so I’m changing how the emails work.
If you wish to continue receiving diary entries by email you must subscribe to the new group by the end of April 2021. After this emails will not be sent by the existing Feedburner-powered service.
There’s a new book about to come out by Jacky Colliss Harvey, called Walking Pepys’s London. The publisher has offered readers of this site 20% off plus free UK delivery if you order it from their website using the coupon code PEPYSDIARY. Here’s the blurb:
The History of Parliament blog has a new post today about how Christmas was celebrated, or not, in the mid-17th century, which users Pepys’ diary’s one of its examples:
David James Harries recently got in touch to mention a paper he wrote for The Journal of Dry Eye and Ocular Surface Disease, entitled ‘Pepys’s Eyes: A Modern Answer to an Old Conundrum?’. Here’s the abstract:
The maps in the Encyclopedia should be working again, after a few days of being blank.