£10 / £7 Livestreamed

We may think we know Samuel Pepys as the most celebrated witness of Restoration England living through the Plague and the Great Fire of London. But the truth is far darker.

In a revealing and sometimes shocking new transcription of Pepys’s coded diary, bestselling historian Guy de la Bédoyère uncovers passages long obscured or omitted in earlier editions, revealing Pepys’s assaults on women and the ways he exploited his position and power.

He discusses Samuel Pepys in the light of these discoveries.

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