PEPYS, ON THE RECORD This hard-working civil servant lived a remarkable life and, thankfully for us, he wrote many of the best bits down
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Samuel Pepys was a high-ranking naval administrator who, between 1660 and 1669, kept a diary that chronicled both his personal life and the significant events occurring in London. Among these were the restoration of the British monarchy, the Great Plague and the Great Fire of London – events of which Pepys’ diary tells us more than any other public record.