![]() ![]() Historians have long admired Pepys' diary because it features many minor day-to-day happenings that other contemporary documents do not cover. The diary he kept for nearly ten years from 1660 eventually became one of Britain's most celebrated and a unique records of everyday life for an upper middle-class person in Stuart England. He had grown up in the city and, with a talent for administration and hard work, was a rising star in the English Admiralty of King Charles II. This was the world of Samuel Pepys, Clerk of the Acts to the Navy Board and diarist. ![]() Its wharfs and docks on the River Thames flowed with people, goods and talk of wars with the Dutch and the French. It was a thriving, bustling world of narrow cobbled streets filled with timber-framed, thatched buildings. ![]() On Saturday 1 September 1666 the City of London sat nestled within its Roman walls away from the rest of the surrounding districts. ![]()
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