Lessons from 10 years of Pepys's diaries online

For ten years, Phil Gyford has been republishing Samuel Pepys's diaries online in one-entry-per-day chunks. On the way, he and a growing community of readers, historians, literary scholars and enthusiasts have annotated Pepys's legendary accounts of life in 17th century London. In this presentation, Phil walks us through the most surprising and interesting moments in his decade of Pepysianism, from random Twitterers who've taken on the personae of other characters in Pepys's saga to Google mashups of Pepys's London. I saw him present this earlier this year at The Story in London and it was marvellous.

My talk about Samuel Pepys' diary as an online story

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Nick Loven

I made a short film imagining Pepys using twitter. You can see it here http://youtu.be/XPxTOY4Serc
Boondocker

Wow. I misread that headline as: “Lessons from 10 years of Pepsi’s diaries online.” Soda scandal!
AGC

One of my favourite reads. Hate the word -victuals- though, I do believe it was voted most ugliest word in language recently.

O and the part of him buying the German porn book and reading it in his attic, burning each page as he finished the smutty novel, couldn’t be any funnier.
- irksome
  
  My vote would be for “most ugliest…”
  
  Oh but I kid. That is, in fact, the best way to read 17th Century German porn.
Revisorius

Did anybody else learn about these diaries from an episode of “The Brady Bunch”?
MadRat

I suppose I should read that. I’m a direct descendant of Lord Brunker, Pepys’ favorite backgammon partner. OK, I know there’s Bunker Hill and Archie Bunker (a TV show that was popular 30 years ago) which causes confusion about my surname, but Pepys didn’t have those distractions, so why did he have to spell the name differently for each journal entry?
Anonymous

Cory,

Thanks for this. My father passed away this last November. He spent years tracking down Pepys’s diaries only to finally find a complete set outside a small bookseller at Cambridge (he was American). â€œStrange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.â€

Thank you.
Nadreck

The local Toronto rag The National Post has been serialising Pepy’s diary, one entry a day, for many years now.