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The Benson Diary by AC Benson review – musings of an Edwardian elitist

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

At four million words he beats Pepys, but the daily jottings of a judgmental don fail to transcend his rather stuffy millieu

AC Benson is remembered today, if at all, for having edited three volumes o…

4 months ago

The Confessions of Samuel Pepys by Guy de la Bédoyère review – sex and the city

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Newly decoded extracts from his diaries expose the celebrated 17th-century diarist and naval administrator as a rapacious sexual predator

Samuel Pepys’s diary, which covers 1660 to 1669, is regarded a…

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews The Great Fire of London With Rob Rinder & Ruth Goodman on CH5: How the Great Fire almost turned Pepys's £1k Parmesan into fondue

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a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

We've all asked ourselves the question: if the house is on fire, and people and pets are safe, what one item would you rescue? Diarist Samuel Pepys saved a £1,000 imported wheel of Parmigiano.

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