The lure of sunken treasure under the waves has wreck-hunting salvage investigators scouring the sea beds to make their ...

Curiosity takes many forms. Although the author of this entertaining book – which is not so much a twin biography as a cultural companion to Restoration London – never quite acknowledges it, the ...

Samuel Pepys (Portrait by John Hayls, 1666. Public domain) These days, if I feel like disappearing for a while into an alternate universe, then I might turn to Pepys and transport myself back into ...

The Calculating Machines of Sir Samuel Morland. The polymath Samuel Morland (see biography of Samuel Morland), was a notable English academic, diplomat, spy, inventor, and mathematician of the 17th ...

My own copy bears the bookplate of James Lees-Milne, whose gossipy diaries are those of a 20th-century bisexual Samuel Pepys. What particularly tickles me, though, ...

Naval administrator and diarist Samuel Pepys wrote about being given one in the 1660s. This find was inscribed in Latin B.G. Bart. ob: 10. Oct: 1723. aet: 56, which translates as B.G. Baronet ...

Is mentioned in Samuel Pepys diary as "Pretty, witty Nell" Bore two sons by Charles - one died and the other was made Earl of Burford and, subsequently, Duke of St. Albans ...

St Olave’s is a fascinating church to explore. This was the parish church of Samuel Pepys, and numerous memorials to the great diarist can be found inside and around the church.

Contemporary diaries, letters and memoirs by courtly figures who knew Catherine, including diarists Samuel Pepys and Sir John Reresby as well as the French courtier Count Philibert de Gramont, shed ...