Articles by pepys
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Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore Story (2023) (historytoday.com)

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Heirs and Spares in Early Modern France (historytoday.com)

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Growling in a corner: Samuel Johnson's lost years (commonreader.co.uk)

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Can the Dictionary Keep Up? (thenation.com)

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The British Empire's Brothels (historytoday.com)

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What influence has the BBC had on history? (historytoday.com)

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Are We Doomed? (lrb.co.uk)

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'The Dream Factory' Review: A Building and Its Bard (wsj.com)

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The Aesthete's Progress (sydneyreviewofbooks.com)

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The Battle of Hastings Isn't Over (unherd.com)

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Ouvriers de Luxe (lrb.co.uk)

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Oxford might be best described as a city of books (thecritic.co.uk)

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A Collection of Old English Customs, and Curious Bequests and Charities (1842) (publicdomainreview.org)

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Sikkim and the Himalayan Chess Game (2016) (historytoday.com)

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What it means to be 'culturally' Irish in 2025 is complicated (bbc.com)

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Roots of the Republic (literaryreview.co.uk)

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Roots of the Republic (literaryreview.co.uk)

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Hegel Dust (bookforum.com)

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The Salt Path Controversy (theguardian.com)

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Publishing Pepys (literaryreview.co.uk)

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Does a Focus on Royalty Obscure British History? (historytoday.com)

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When Humans Learned to Live Everywhere (nytimes.com)

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The long afterlife of a literary classic (thecritic.co.uk)

10

The Diary of Samuel Pepys (historytoday.com)

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How to Make a Living as a Writer (thewalrus.ca)

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'World War Zoos' Review: Of Bombs and Beasts (wsj.com)

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A deep-cover KGB spy recruited his own son (theguardian.com)

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'Enough Is Enuf' Review: A Dream of Simpler Spelling (wsj.com)

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Catherine of Siena's American Daughters (historytoday.com)

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Telling the Bees (emergencemagazine.org)

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The Second Season of "Wolf Hall" Surpasses Its Acclaimed Predecessor (newyorker.com)

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Talkin’ about a Revolution (drb.ie)

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Rickover's Lessons (chinatalk.media)

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The Trials of an Exorcist, 1597 (gethistories.com)

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A Princely Ploy: Inside the Ruse of a French-Armenian Scammer (publicdomainreview.org)

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What made the Irish famine so deadly (newyorker.com)

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An Uneasy Propaganda Alliance (historytoday.com)

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The Cat's Meat Man: Feeding Felines in Victorian London (publicdomainreview.org)

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'Augustus the Strong' by Tim Blanning Review (historytoday.com)

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No Way Home (literaryreview.co.uk)

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Blurred Forms: An Unsteady History of Drunkenness (2014) (theappendix.net)

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Permission to Practise Medicine (blogs.bl.uk)

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Orca that carried dead calf for weeks appears to be in mourning again (nytimes.com)

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What Is Modernity? (historytoday.com)

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Could the Soviet Union have survived? (historytoday.com)

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J G A Pocock's "Machiavellian Moment" (aeon.co)

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A woman appeared on the English stage on this day in 1660 (smithsonianmag.com)

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Melons and Melancholy: Review of Steven Shapin's "Eating and Being" (lareviewofbooks.org)

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The First Suburb (manchestermill.co.uk)

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A 132-Year-Old Message in a Bottle in a Scottish Lighthouse (nytimes.com)

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A Messy Problem in Orderly Singapore: Keeping Track of Cats (nytimes.com)

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A Derelict Townhouse Becomes a DIY Wonderland (nytimes.com)

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Big Data for the Leviathan (lrb.co.uk)

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The 1600s were a watershed for swear words (2022) (historytoday.com)

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The rollercoaster king: the man behind the UK's fastest thrill-ride (theguardian.com)

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Robert Fergusson: Scotia's Bard (historytoday.com)

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Vanity of Vanities: Fool's Cap Map of the World (Ca. 1585) (publicdomainreview.org)

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Can a $350M Plan Transform 5th Avenue into a Grand Boulevard? (nytimes.com)

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Willey House Stories Part 1 – The Open Plan Kitchen (2017) (franklloydwright.org)

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Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis (historytoday.com)

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'The Scapegoat' by Lucy Hughes-Hallett Review (historytoday.com)

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Normans and Slavery: Breaking the Bonds (historytoday.com)

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Timothy Snyder on How the Collapse of the Soviet Union Took America by Surprise (lithub.com)

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Reassessing William the Conqueror (2016) (historytoday.com)

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The Island: WH Auden and the Last of Englishness Review (theguardian.com)

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In This Beautiful Library, Bats Guard the Books (atlasobscura.com)

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Why Medieval Women Sometimes Fought in Bloody Trials by Combat (atlasobscura.com)

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Deals with the devil aren't what they used to be (newyorker.com)

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1935: Britain's First Milk Bar Opens (historytoday.com)

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How Diaries Evolved from Lists to Personal Histories (slate.com)

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The Brothers Who Asserted Their Right to Free Speech in Tudor England (smithsonianmag.com)

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Giving Life to Æthelstan (historytoday.com)

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The Old Bailey with Britain's last court reporters (theguardian.com)

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Revolution in the air: how laughing gas changed the world (theguardian.com)

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Why Italy Fell Out of Love with Cilantro (atlasobscura.com)

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The Past, Present, and Future of Lager Yeast (goodbeerhunting.com)

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Spy, accomplice, ghostwriter (insidestory.org.au)

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The Odd Couple: Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene (thecritic.co.uk)

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Tea Punch Was the First Cocktail (atlasobscura.com)

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Eye Miniatures (ca. 1790–1810) (publicdomainreview.org)

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Adam Smith, the Prophet of Profit (historytoday.com)

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Her Blazing World (aeon.co)

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How actors remember their lines (mitpress.mit.edu)

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The Gilded Gallows of Georg Honauer (1597) (publicdomainreview.org)

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'The Specter of the Archive' by Nicholas Popper Review (historytoday.com)

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Ladders last a long time: Reading Raphael Samuel (lrb.co.uk)

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Mona Lisa, Smile: You're in Lecco, After All (nytimes.com)

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The Ambassador, the Grand Duke, His Wife and Her Lover (historytoday.com)

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A knight's tale (blogs.bl.uk)

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Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England (historytoday.com)

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Things our research uncovered when we recreated 16th century beer (and barrels) (theconversation.com)

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It's Dante's hell – we're just living in it (neh.gov)

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In Defense of Boring Books (historytoday.com)

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Between Psyche and Cyborg: Carl Jung's Legacy (themarginalian.org)

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The Ghost Army, Fake Fleets and Inflatable Enemies of World War II (2017) (atlasobscura.com)

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London Gentlemen's Clubs and Victorian Politics (historytoday.com)

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Little Boney: James Gillray and Napoleon's Fragile Masculinity (publicdomainreview.org)

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Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain (historytoday.com)

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Mr. Aecroid's Tables: Calculations and Customs in the Early Modern Countryside (uchicago.edu)

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The Battles over Beginnings (aeon.co)