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Product details
- ISBN 9780500518144
- Weight: 1930g
- Dimensions: 245 x 280mm
- Publication Date: 02 Nov 2015
- Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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This book, published to coincide with a major exhibition at the National Maritime Museum to mark the 350th anniversary of the Great Fire of London, centres on Samuel Pepys (1633 1703), the famous diarist and the greatest administrator of the Stuart Age. Not only a passionate diarist, Pepys was also a prolific correspondent who lived through and wrote about all the key events and leading individuals of his time: the Restoration of Charles II, the Great Plague, the Fire of London, the raid of the Dutch fleet in the river Medway, the King’s mistresses. Through a series of essays by leading experts, this publication reveals the rich diversity of his career and interests – from the theatre, to advances in science and development of the Royal Navy. His life was so utterly entwined with the extraordinary period he lived through – he was even a witness to the beheading of Charles I – that the book becomes a portrait of the age. Each chapter has two or three essays followed by discussion of specific objects and paintings.
Margarette Lincoln was Deputy Director at Royal Museums Greenwich from 2007 to
2015. She is also the author of British Pirates and Society, 1680–1730, Naval Wives and
Mistresses and Representing the Royal Navy: British Sea Power, 1750–1815.
