Samuel Pepys
Samuel Pepys (1633–1703) was an English naval administrator and Member of Parliament who is now most famous for the diary he kept for a decade while still a relatively young man. Although he had no maritime experience, he rose by patronage, hard work, and his talent for administration to be the Chief Secretary to the Admiralty under both King Charles II and King James II. His influence and reforms at the Admiralty were important in the early professionalization of the Royal Navy. The detailed private diary he kept from 1660 until 1669 was first published in the nineteenth century and is one of the most important primary sources for history of the English Restoration period. It provides a combination of personal revelation and eyewitness accounts of great events, such as the Great Plague of London, the Second Dutch War, and the Great Fire of London.
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Passages from the Diary of Samuel Pepys
- By: Samuel Pepys
- Narrator: Fred Williams
- Length: 13 hours 2 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2006
- Language: English
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“The diary which Samuel Pepys kept from January 1660 to May 1669…is one of our greatest historical records and…a major work of English literature,” writes the renowned historian Paul Johnson.
A witness to the coronation of... Read more
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys
- By: Samuel Pepys
- Narrator: Samuel Pepys
- Length: 4 hours 19 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: February 06, 2008
- Language: English
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Samuel Pepys was born in London in 1633 and died in Clapham in 1703. In his life, he was Secretary of Naval Affairs and President of the Royal Society, mingling with the greatest of the land. He lived through civil war, plague, and the greatest fire... Read more
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