Tag Archives: John Evelyn diarist

fire of london: desolation row

Posted on September 6, 2012 by Dave

On Sunday, September 2, 1666, fire burst out in a riverside area of London. The season was dry, the city wooden, and a perverse east wind kept fanning the flames. Ever curious, Samuel Pepys climbed a turret to get a … Continue reading →

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fire! and “a very fearful stink”

Posted on September 5, 2012 by Dave

Samuel Pepys diary. There is nothing quite like his account of Restoration England in all its gaudy excess of sex, scandal, fire and plague… The final blow to English morale was the Great Fire of London, which razed most of … Continue reading →

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daughter of moses

Posted on May 24, 2012 by Dave

They were depicted as ugly or extremley cultured and beautiful. They were never “average” as so the travel accounts of Jewish women in Ottoman Turkey have come down to us. It is hard to know the basis for this; in … Continue reading →