London's favourite diarist continues to fill page after page

The Independent - London | March 31, 2003| | Copyright

HUNDREDS OF people will file into Guildhall in the City of London today to hear a lecture on him. A mile away in Trafalgar Square an exhibition of portraits of his life and times will open.

At Magdalene College in Cambridge there has been renewed interest in his library. His diaries, which illuminate 17th-century London, are selling keenly in bookshops. This autumn the BBC is screening a drama on the more salacious parts of his life starring the comedian Steve Coogan.

Interest in Samuel Pepys has been rising in recent months, thanks in no small part to a celebrated biography by the writer ...

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