
A window onto a city alive with clatter, commerce and confession. A diary that lets you walk the streets of Restoration London as if you were there beside Pepys, jotting notes about a changing world. Diary Of Samuel Pepys - Volume 05 May 1660 offers a vivid, unvarnished portrait...

Diary of Samuel Pepys - Volume 05: May 1660 by Mynors Bright May 1st. This morning I was told how the people of Deal have set up two or three Maypoles, and have hung up their flags upon the top of them, and do resolve to be very merry to-day. It being a very pleasant day, I wished...