pepysdiary VS django-pghistory

I made a template tag for generating the query string when paginating search results like this. See https://github.com/philgyford/pepysdiary/blob/main/pepysdiary/common/templatetags/utility_tags.py use it for a page link like:

Anyone interested in England during this era should read it. It's long (unabridged it’s 9 volumes but there are tons of abridgements; find a modern one that leaves the sex scenes in) but it's worth it: it covers the Great Plague and the Great Fire of London as well as the Restoration and the Second Dutch War from the perspective of someone near the action (Pepys was a Member of Parliament and eventually Chief Secretary of the Admiralty), while also covering his numerous dalliances with what sometimes feels like every woman to cross his path. I’m using this free version of his diary as a reference, primarily because it’s searchable, but I also have a print version of the Latham and Matthews 9-volume set as a cross reference.

It is. There’s a good website that has the full text, searchable: https://www.pepysdiary.com

It was Samuel Pepys Diary. He was an admin for parliament in the 1600s.

My site about Samuel Pepys, a 17th century London diarist, has been running on Django for ten years now: https://www.pepysdiary.com

Here's a letter written in 1605 about the Gunpowder Plot and it's pretty easy to understand as long as you're natively fluent in English and don't mind squinting your eyes to read the handwriting. Here's a website from which you can read the diary entries of Samuel Pepys, a now famous 17th century diarist in England. Aside from a few words that have fell out of modern use (e.g- "vexed", meaning to be annoyed) it's not hard to understand- if you're natively fluent in English.