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The Illustrated Pepys: Extracts from the Diary by Samuel Pepys ...  In his pages the public events of London in the 1660s - the politics of the ... the Plague, the Great Fire - are interwoven with a richly diverting account of his colourful private life. ... Pepys' diary only covers 9.5 years, from 1st January 1660 when he was 26, .... and Member of Parliament, who is now most famous for his diary.
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Samuel Pepys - Wikipedia  Samuel Pepys FRS was an English naval administrator and Member of Parliament who is most famous for the diary that he kept for a ... The detailed private diary that Pepys kept from 1660 until 1669 was first published in the 19th ... Pepys did not spend all of his infancy in London; for a while, he was sent to live with nurse...
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BBC - Primary History - Famous People - Samuel Pepys  He lived through two disasters - the Plague and the Great Fire of London. He died in 1703. Why is his diary famous? Pepys started his diary in 1660. He went on...
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Patrick Wallis, 'A Dreadful Heritage: Interpreting Epidemic Disease ...  Aug 20, 2012 ... History Workshop Journal, Issue 61, Spring 2006, pp. 31-56 ... is somewhat ambiguous as he had been rector of Eyam until his ejection from the post in ... the horror of the village's epidemic is bluntly argued by the record of mortality ... London's 'Great Plague' of 1665  in fact a less severe outbreak than the.
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You Wouldn't Want to Be in the Great Fire of London! - Salariya  Although official statistics report only five deaths during the Great Fire, more than ... glowing ember in the fire when he cooled the ovens, and this spark started a ... warehouses along the River Thames were on fire, and the contents of these ..... Samuel Pepys wrote the following in his diary on Monday 3rd September 1666:.
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Samuel Pepys - Wikipedia  Samuel Pepys FRS was an English naval administrator and Member of Parliament who is most .... On 1 January 1660 ("1 January 1659/1660" in contemporary terms), Pepys began to ... England was in disarray when he began writing his diary. ..... He moved out of London ten years later (1701) to a house in Clapham owned...
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Friday 15 May 1663 (Pepys' Diary) - The Diary of Samuel Pepys  May 15, 2006 ... The ones I've had to mend four times cause you were too cheap to buy me more pairs, remember? ... Sir Henry Bennett had written to Sir Richard Fanshawe in Lisbon. ... critically on the dishes which had been at table" James Boswell. ... I am not sure why, but Sam would have been concerned to make sure...
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The Story of an Eyewitness - Achieve the Core  Title: The Story of an Eyewitness by Jack London ... In the magazine article, The Story of an Eyewitness, Jack London describes the effects of the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906. ... Why does London use the subheading The Doomed City to describe the same ... Day was trying to dawn through the smoke-pall
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Black Death - Wikipedia  The Black Death or Black Plague was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, ... The plague recurred occasionally in Europe until the 19th century. .... malady began to change, black spots or livid making their appearance in many ..... its origins, about a third of the European population had already perished.
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Famous Historical Diaries - InboxJournal.com  Read about famous diaries and journals kept by historical figures. ... Anne Frank depicted her life in hiding during World War II through her personal diary Kitty. The diary ... The book would later be published as The Diary of a Young Girl. ... The diary of Samuel Pepys is one of the most important diaries in history.
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Full text of "Life and labors of Samuel Pepys" - Internet Archive  1. Lucas-Uubreton . "Samuel Pepys: Portrait in T'iniature P.l. 2. Drinkwater. .... especially when we realize that he did this diligently "from January 1, 1660 to June ... Pepys began his Diary with the right sentiment: "Blessed be God, at the end of the ...... Mr. Samuel Pepys survived both the London plague and the Great Fire.
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Samuel Pepys - Wikipedia  Samuel Pepys FRS was an English naval administrator and Member of Parliament who is most famous for the diary that he kept for a .... Aside from day to day activities, Pepys also commented on the significant and turbulent events of his nation. .... In relation to the Plague and Fire, C. S. Knighton has written: "From its...
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Black Death - Wikipedia  The Black Death or Black Plague was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, ... 6 See also; 7 References; 8 Further reading; 9 External links .... The outbreaks have been shown to occur roughly 15 years after a warmer and ..... In the first half of the 17th century, a plague claimed some 1.7 million victims in...
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Plague in the Ancient World  Also, the ways in which ancient writers wrote about these disasters will be ... The Athenian plague occurred in 430-26 B.C. during the Peloponnesian War, which was ... <4> Through this work, Thucydides began an historiographical tradition ... of the accounts, having contracted the disease himself in 542 while still young.
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Boccaccio on Stage.pdf - Italian Research Institute  the book, before the stories begin, was essentially theatrical: trapped in a city afflicted by the plague from which there is no escape, a group of young people manage ... Giovanni Boccaccio was in Florence when the Black Death invaded the city ... The desire for pleasure and amusement of the ten young people sheltered in...
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The Plague by Albert Camus  Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists  Rate this book ... A gripping tale of human unrelieved horror, of survival and resilience, and of the ...... 19132013 A hundred years of Albert Camus, a writer. ..... of a town and its people in exile and separation due to the outbreak of the plague. ... I first read this book in high school, and when I joined Goodreads and rated the...
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Historicizing Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness - Canadian Center ...  Feb 25, 2015 ... Conrad renders his own anti-colonial .... Conrad to write his novella, Heart of Darkness. Conrad's experience most certainly provided a basis for the ... in the Congo is supported by his trip to the Congo in 1890, which causes him to feel disillusioned ..... most disastrous plagues recorded in human history.
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BOOKS OF THE TIMES - A Frightening Portrait of a Threat to the ...  THE COMING PLAGUE Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance By ... Published: November 9, 1994 ... researched new book, Laurie Garrett, a writer for Newsday, draws a ... cholera, bubonic plague, yellow fever, syphilis and AIDS, and the newly ... One such shift, Ms. Garrett says, has contributed to the recent...
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Dancing plagues and mass hysteria | The Psychologist  In dozens of medieval towns scattered along the valley of the River Rhine hundreds ... chroniclers, monks and priests, and for the 1518 outbreak we can even read the ... observers, however, made clear their view that the dancing was a sickness. ... imposed by their orders, plenty reflected with terrible fear on the fiery destiny...
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The Bubonic Plague of 1665 from the "The Diary of Samuel Pepys"  Black Death or the bubonic plague reappeared in London in 1665 and claimed perhaps ... A daily log of the events of the day was kept by Samuel Pepys who ... three or four weeks since its beginning been wholly out of the City);. June 15 . ... of it there dying this last weekof the plague 112, from 43 the week before whereof,...