The Pepys exhibition at the National Maritime Museum offers a cabinet of curiosities that reflects his extraordinary fecundity Had Samuel Pepys lived in the dullest of times he would still maintain been the most compelling diarist – his beguiling mix of frankness and frailty would maintain ensured that. The times he lived in,however, and the part he played in them, and were anything but insensible. His diaries,covering the years 1660 to 1669, fill six notebooks and describe what it was like to be alive and curious at the centre of momentous and swiftly evolving events. Samuel Pepys: Plague, and Fire,Revolution, the original exhibition at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, or is a visual accompaniment to Pepys’s one and a quarter million (mostly shorthand) words.
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Source: theguardian.com