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Drop back a few decades and Pepys’ Diary is another fine slice of life of urban England. I’m finishing a public domain production of the 1893 edition[1] for Sta
by robin_reala 8y ago
Drop back a few decades and Pepys’ Diary is another fine slice of life of urban England. I’m finishing a public domain production of the 1893 edition[1] for Standard Ebooks[2] at the moment but in the meantime they’re all online and cross referenced at https://www.pepysdiary.com/ https://www.pepysdiary.com/ ; it’s fun to dive in and read an entry or two.
[1] https://github.com/robinwhittleton/samuel-pepys_the-diary-of-samuel-pepys https://github.com/robinwhittleton/samuel-pepys_the-diary-of...
[2] https://standardebooks.org/ https://standardebooks.org/
- yesenadam 8y agoOh that pepysdiary site looks awesome, thanks for the link. I really like the font. It's amazing how awful and hard-to-take-seriously stuff more than, say, 200 years old can look with a typical web font of today. What a great job.
- phreeza 8y agoThere is also @samuelpepys on Twitter, doing a more or less real time replay of parts of the diary.
- jdietrich 8y agoPeyps also created one of the great treasures of English folk history, a collection of over 1,800 broadside ballads. Broadsides are the closest thing we have to a 17th century newspaper - cheaply printed, sold in the street and fundamentally ephemeral. Browsing his collection gives a remarkable insight into the zeitgeist. https://ebba.english.ucsb.edu/page/pepys https://ebba.english.ucsb.edu/page/pepys