Scourge of the spanish main

The posthumous reputation of James VI and I

The piece I’d never part with

Strange murder mysterie s from times gone by

That threatened thrones

Samuel Pepys is England’s most celebrated diarist. Between 1 January 1660 and 31 May 1669, he recorded his day-to-day life in fascinating and illuminating detail. He wrote about his relationship with

Without England’s most notorious Tudor king, the country’s religious and political history would’ve looked very different