There are so many articles these days – on the web and off- that give a guide to how life was lived or how something was experienced in...

I love delving into the diary of Samuel Pepys. He left us a wonderful record of some great historical events as they were unfolding, but for...

As one of the international History Girls, I didn't grow up with Punch and Judy. I knew vaguely who they were, and thought I understo...

Our guest this month is children's writer Deborah White. Welcome Deborah! (If you read to the end you will discover how seriously sh...

On New Year’s day 1660, the twenty-six year old Samuel Pepys decided to keep a diary. He would cease a decade later. His entries are a...

By Katherine Langrish June 23rd This morning to rise early in readiness for our water excursion, myself having slept at the house of t...

On 26 th December 1662, twenty-nine year old Samuel Pepys met his friend Mr Battersby, who recommended ‘a new book of Drollery in verse ca...