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• pepysdiary

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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.

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