About the Book

Welcome to London in lockdown – in 1665

This timely release of a year in the life of London’s greatest diarist comes with an introduction by bestselling author, Max Hastings.

The plague that swept through London in 1665 brought the city to a grinding halt. The bustle of business gave way to a grim air of fear as nearly a quarter of Londoners were struck down. Yet for Samuel Pepys, life went on.
In his lifetime, Pepys was a naval administrator and a friend and colleague of the powerful and learned. For nearly ten years he kept a private diary in which he recorded life in Restoration London, commenting on politics, public events and private matters. As well as recording public and historical events, Pepys paints a vivid picture of his personal life, from his socializing and amorous entanglements, to his theatre-going and his work at the Navy Board. Unequalled for its frankness, high spirits and sharp observations, the diary is both a literary masterpiece and a marvellous portrait of seventeenth-century life.
In 1665 that life was lived under an ever-present shadow of death, and Pepys offers us a glimpse into how that affected London and Londoners alike.

Product Details

• ISBN: 9780008432263
• ISBN 10: 0008432260
• Imprint: TLS Books
• On Sale: 09/03/2020
• Pages: 272
• List Price:13.99 CAD
• BISAC1 : HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Stuart Era (1603-1714)
• BISAC2 : MEDICAL / History
• BISAC3 : HISTORY / Social History
• BISAC4 : HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases / Contagious
• BISAC5 : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical

Samuel Pepys

Biography

Robert Latham, cbe, ma, fba was born in Audley, Staffordshire. Educated at Cambridge, he was Reader in History in the University of London at Royal Holloway College from 1947 to 1968 when he went to the University of Toronto as Professor of History. From 1970 he was a Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, where, as Pepys Librarian until 1982, he had charge of the remarkable collection of books, prints and manuscripts which Pepys left to his old College. He devoted the greater part of his life to the study of the Diary, and died in January 1995.

Other Works by Samuel Pepys

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  1665 – Diary of a Plague Year

  By Samuel Pepys

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  The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Volume III – 1662

  By Samuel Pepys

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  The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Volume X – Companion

  By Samuel Pepys