Meanwhile, the diarist Samuel Pepys cured his upset stomach by purchasing a new hare ... These are among the many fascinating snippets discussed in Liz Williams’s new book, Compendium of the Occult: ...

That’s the famous order given by the heartless Queen of Hearts in British writer Lewis Carroll’s 1865 book ... entry in Samuel Pepys’ diary: “This day the Parliament voted that the ...

The 69-year-old won for Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self ... but in the end there was an overwhelming vote for the Pepys book. "We know a lot about Pepys from his diaries but they only covered ...

The book could have been even more thorough if the author had ... people began pouring their quotidian lives onto the page. The diaries of Samuel Pepys are only the most famous, and both he and ...

But one man wrote everything down in a private book, a diary. His name was Samuel Pepys. Samuel started to write, around 1660, about the things he did and who he saw. He lived in London and began ...

Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) was probably the most famous ... His diary was written in shorthand and when he died the books were kept at his old school of Magdalene College, Cambridge, until 1825 ...

On an autumn day in 1680, the 50-year-old Charles II charged Samuel Pepys with an unusual task ... Charles Spencer’s latest book, To Catch a King, does for us exactly what Charles II intended when he ...

Another romantic hotel in London is NoMad in Covent Garden, with a bright restaurant in its atrium as the centrepoint and lots of dark corners for romance. Also aiding and abetting mischief is Side ...

At Grantham school, Newton sought solace in books. He was unmoved by literature ... to the philosopher John Locke and to the MP Samuel Pepys for having wished them dead, though whether he actually ...