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Title: Pepys Diary. Post by: leefer on Friday, November 5, 2010, 22:36:24 http://www.pepysdiary.com/archive/
For those who like your history...this link is mint. An astounding 8 years of all walks of life in the 1600's. Love the highlights of the important people of the time and place names/pubs etc. Not every ones cup of tea i know but i love it..i am still on year one..a great piece of work by a man who left us a little taste of old England...and especially London. Incidently while thousands died around him he lived and worked in London during the plague and survived. Title: Re: Pepys Diary. Post by: Fred Elliot on Friday, November 5, 2010, 22:40:06 http://www.pepysdiary.com/archive/ For those who like your history...this link is mint. An astounding 8 years of all walks of life in the 1600's. Love the highlights of the important people of the time and place names/pubs etc. Not every ones cup of tea i know but i love it..i am still on year one..a great piece of work by a man who left us a little taste of old England...and especially London. Incidently while thousands died around him he lived and worked in London during the plague and survived. if he didnt invent Voltorol then he aint worth reading about in my book ! Title: Re: Pepys Diary. Post by: Reg Smeeton on Saturday, November 6, 2010, 02:16:22 Ace.....never quite got my head round how Pepys = matey peeps, but the link has rounded off a good night :)
Title: Re: Pepys Diary. Post by: OOH! SHAUN TAYLOR on Saturday, November 6, 2010, 09:01:40 I remember reading an extract once - it must have been from about January 1665 - where he is going on about how unseasonally warm the temperature was and the fact that roses were blooming next to The Thames (or something) I thought that was interesting seeing as we're constantly being told that climate change is a man made phenomenon and yet there was no industrialization to speak of at that time.
Title: Re: Pepys Diary. Post by: A Gent Orange on Saturday, November 6, 2010, 09:08:57 I remember reading an extract once - it must have been from about January 1665 - where he is going on about how unseasonally warm the temperature was and the fact that roses were blooming next to The Thames (or something) I thought that was interesting seeing as we're constantly being told that climate change is a man made phenomenon and yet there was no industrialization to speak of at that time. Yeah! In your face peer-reviewed science! Half-remembered anecdotal evidence! Good link though... Title: Re: Pepys Diary. Post by: OOH! SHAUN TAYLOR on Saturday, November 6, 2010, 13:51:16 ::) Oooooh, aren't we clever today? I'm just saying that there is such a thing as natural climate change as well as man made. Just because we get a bit of a warm spell in November, it's not necessarily down to Global Warming.
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