For a decade, beginning in 1660, an ambitious young London civil servant kept an astonishingly candid account of his life during one of the most defining periods in British ...

A full-scale biography of naval administrator Samuel Pepys, more well-known for being the friend of the famous and powerful, this text, which draws on Pepys own personal diary ...

The seventeenth century saw a revolution in man’s thought, as Isaac Newton and others began the scientific study of the universe around them. At the same time a shrewd young ...