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Há 1 dia · Samuel Pepys‘ diary is a remarkable primary source document that has provided historians with an unparalleled glimpse into life in 17th century England. Kept daily from 1660 to 1669, Pepys‘ diary records not just the most intimate details of his personal life, but also eyewitness accounts of major historical events like the Great Plague of 1665, the Second Anglo-Dutch War, and the Great ...
Há 4 dias · York House in the Strand in London was one of a string of mansions which once stood along the route from the City of London to the royal court at Westminster. It was built as the London home of the Bishops of Norwich not later than 1237. At the time of the Diary it was owned by George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham.
Há 2 dias · Philosophial language schemes. real character. shorthand. alphabet. notational systems. We present here four papers which deal, directly or indirectly, with seventeenth-century schemes going under the title a Philosophical Language, a Universal Language, a Real Character, and so on. Paradigm examples of such schemes are the ones published by ...
Há 3 dias · Samuel Pepys, Diary, 25 June 1666. 176 . L.C.C.R.O., Hackney parish registers, register of baptisms, marriages and burials 1653–85, 10 June 1664 and 20 July 1665.
Há 1 dia · Claire Tomalin is rightly celebrated for her doorstep-sized (but never dull for a moment) biographies of Charles Dickens, Samuel Pepys and Jane Austen. But the first book of hers that I read was the diminutive Shelley and His World . I was hooked on biography (and Tomalin’s writing) for life after that.
Há 18 horas · This is the recording of Frans Brüggen at the peak of his maturity. At the same time, it is a masterpiece that made Telemann a world-famous composer. The first piece, a trio for recorder and gamba, has been performed by amateurs and professionals alike, and the second piece, a trio for traverso and oboe, I remember playing many times. One of the great things about Telemann is his skillful way ...
Há 5 dias · Print of the Bartholomew Fair meant to be shaped into a hand fan, 1721. The Bartholomew Fair is the setting for Bartholomew Fair, a play by Ben Jonson. Samuel Pepys wrote about the fair in his diary. John Evelyn also refers in his diary to having visited "the celebrated follies of Bartholomew Fair" on 16 August 1648 .
