Samuel Pepys [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
… could serve his ambitions, Pepys also enjoyed making the most of the leisure opportunities and meeting places of Restoration London. His diary of the 1660s and other papers reveal his relationships with a wide range of Londoners, … his diary and other papers offer a wide-ranging and detailed picture of one man’s socializing across venues and ranks in Restoration London. When he began his diary in January 1660 Pepys could claim to be a gentleman, if not by birth, then by … models of government, but it proved short lived, dissolving as the political tide turned in favour of Charles II’s restoration. Following Charles’s return, Mountagu procured Pepys the role of Clerk of the Acts. The job came with a new …
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