In 1666 a devastating fire swept through London, destroying 13,200 houses and leaving an estimated 100,000 people homeless.

One of the few Grade I listed buildings in the area provides a historic insight into English writer and politician Samuel ...

The lure of sunken treasure under the waves has wreck-hunting salvage investigators scouring the sea beds to make their ...

On an autumn day in 1680, the 50-year-old Charles II charged Samuel Pepys with an unusual task. Over two three-hour sittings, one on a Sunday evening, the next the following Tuesday morning, the king ...

Boswell’s and Pepys’s periodic bursts of lechery and panic; Chips Channon’s unrealistic dreams of political greatness ...

Credit: The diary of Samuel Pepys / completely transcribed by Mynors Bright, from the shorthand manuscript in the Pepysian Library, Magdalene College, Cambridge, with Lord Braybrooke's notes ; edited, ...

Injured in the abdomen, left hand, and right arm, Pope John Paul II took months to recover from the attack. A year and a half later, on December 27, 1983, he decided to visit the man who tried to ...

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