THE original Samuel Pepys wrote his secret diary in shorthand and was not deciphered until several centuries after his death, but ‘F. P. A.’ has worn his heart on his sleeve in the pages of four big ...

IN Mr. Bradford’s practice of the art of ‘psychography’ he has established a method of biography which is very much his own. It is the method of the intrinsic rather than the extrinsic: it has much ...

When Samuel Pepys , wifeless and childless, died in 1703, the pride of his life – three thousand books, lavishly gilded and bound in brown leather – passed to Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he ...

SAMUELS PEPYS : THE YEARS of PERIL —Arthur Bryant—Macmillan ($3.50). Because Samuel Pepys took snapshots of himself in various revealing postures and the negatives were discovered and developed by a ...

As the New Year is upon us, we've compiled a handful of new year’s resolutions made by Londoners of times past. Our ancestors ...

WHEN a man or woman is set up on high, we all stop to look, and those who come behind us stop to look also; and presently a path is worn to this object of notice, Time builds a little shrine about the ...

"If I could only have one food to eat for the rest of my life?" "That's easy. Pez. Cherry flavor Pez. No question about it." ...

Jean Dieu de Saint-Jean, Habit Noir (evening wear), etching c. 1670. A print collected by Samuel Pepys showing a fashionable elite Frenchman proudly wearing lace cuffs and ribbons. A collection of ...