New unabridged diary audiobook in 2015
Those of you who like audiobooks but have had to make do with abridged versions of Samuel Pepys’ diary will be pleased to hear about a new release from Naxos of the entire diary. Quite an undertaking!
Site News
News about this site and other Pepys-related events.
Pepys Family Tree updated
For those of you who like to have the latest version to hand, I’ve updated the family tree.
Samuel Pepys' Playlist on BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 has an episode of their Playlist Series focused on the music that Pepys enjoyed. Here’s the blurb:
Maps are working again
The maps in the Encyclopedia are back now.
Maps not working temporarily
Maps in the Encyclopedia section currently aren’t displaying due to some confusion with Mapbox that provides them. Hopefully they’ll be back in the next day or two.
'Great Fire of London' TV drama
Via Terry Foreman in the discussion group comes the news that the ITV channel in the UK is going to make a drama called The Great Fire of London, to be broadcast on four consecutive days.
Pepys marriage event at St Olave's
St Olave’s church, the Pepys’ local church during the diary period, is hosting an event run by Unity Arts on the evening of Thursday. 10th October 2013, focused around Samuel and Elizabeth’s marriage:
Pepys Diary erasure project
Diary readers might find these blog posts intriguing.
Diary emails and RSS feed fixed
If you read the diary entries by email or RSS you might have noticed it’s been quiet for the past few days, but it should be back now.
Anti-spam measures
It only took seven hours after opening up registrations for our first spammer to sign up. I suppose one must admire their speed. So far that account is the only of several spammers that has posted an annotation (since deleted). I’ve disabled those accounts but that doesn’t stop more spammers registering.