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Feb. 24, 2008
May 31, 2012
Books
Sir Arthur Bryant, a prolific historian ranked in the tradition of Gibbon and Macauley and whose popular accounts of Britain’s greatest days stirred patriotic hearts for decades, is dead.
Jan. 26, 1985
A British academic says she has uncovered new details about the life of a famous literary paramour: the 17-year-old servant caught consorting with diarist Samuel Pepys.
Oct. 14, 2006
JEM (AND SAM) A Novel By Ferdinand Mount; Carroll & Graf: 426 pp., $25.95
Sept. 19, 1999
Travel & Experiences
Concerning the Aug. 19 interview with rock musician Bob Geldof: Samuel Pepys lived during the Restoration period in England, not the Reformation (as Geldof was quoted as saying).
Aug. 26, 1990
“London’s burning, London’s burning, fetch the engines, fetch the engines…” It was celebrated in rhyme, mentioned in Samuel Pepys’ diary and was a regular backdrop to movies and TV shows set in the past.
Aug. 10, 2016
July 29, 2008
Movies
it Joseph Roach University of Michigan Press: 260 pp., $60, $19.95 paper
April 29, 2007
Business
Journalist Colin Webb says he is steeling himself for the day when someone says to him at a cocktail party: “Oh, so you’re in Fleet Street, are you?
Nov. 27, 1988