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Extracts from the plague diary of Mark ne-Francois-Pepys

May 6th 1665

Up betimes and to Lidl to replenish my Monster stores a little, where going I was set upon by a great bulldogg, who got hold of my garters, and might have done me hurt; but, Lord, to see in what a warren
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2020-05-06

Extracts from the plague diary of Mark-ne-Francois-Pepys

March 30th

Up and such is the panic victualing we be out of sugar puffs, so Hartley-Brewer improvising breakfast of pork scratchings in Monster. Abroad to the Anderson Shelter where I did dig out my

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2020-03-30

Extracts from the Plague Diary of Mark ne-Francois-Pepys

March 24th

Waked before 4 o'clock with great pain to piss & great pain in pissing by having, I think, drank too great a draught of Monster when playing some serious Call of Duty with Johnny Mercer before going to bed

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2020-03-24

6 Mar 1660: Edward Montagu, who would become Earl of in July 1660, asks Samuel Pepys to go to sea with him as his secretary

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2020-03-07

On this day 1660: Samuel Pepys begins his diary.

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2020-01-01

Sometimes it's the tiniest of objects that tell the greatest stories. This piece of roof tile is twisted and vitrified. I picked it up close to where Pepys sat in a boat 353 years ago watching London burn. More about the Great Fire on my Insta & FB Pages

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2019-09-25

If coffee is more your cup of tea than, well, tea, you are in good company. Coffee was all the rage from the 17th century and served strong, black and gritty (not a flat white in sight) to the likes of Isaac Newton and Samuel Pepys. Silver coffee pot from 1727

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2019-08-13

Ad Canibus. I was attacked by a dog underneath Eddystone Tower on the Pepys Estate. What always stuck with me was not the dog but the shadows of the massive Tower looming overhead. Everything felt very subterranean and cold and that’s what I want to come through in the painting.

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2018-07-19

Thomas Hollier, Samuel Pepys' surgeon in 1858, performed 30 consecutive bladderstone operations without loosing a patient in 1662.

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2017-10-12

The Great Fire of started today in 1666...and was forced to bury his beloved parmesan.
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The Great Fire, 48x48ins

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2017-09-02

Planning a visit to show Call to check when open today and tomorrow. 07767 498403 apologies for any closures

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2017-06-29

Pepys's Navy: Historian releases work on 17th century navy in paperback, via https://t.co/20Jah2xXi9

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2016-08-11

Here's the terrific cover of the new paperback edition of Pepys's Navy, coming from next summer!

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2015-11-20

Fab object of the week, used to ward of plague. See it on display in https://t.co/nuXZLb5gPf

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2015-11-13

More fabulous objects arriving for These 17th century beauties are on loan from

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2015-11-05

Samuel Pepys, English naval administrator now famous for his Diary, was born 23 February 1633. Kneller; NMM:

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2015-02-24