— Samuel Pepys, a civil servant who lived in London in the 1600s, wrote a diary for ten years, which is now considered one of London’s main records of life at the time. Pepys’s diary covers monumental events like the Great Plague or the Great Fire of 1666.
In 2002, Phil Gyford started publishing the diary in blog format, one post every day, and repeated the reading from 2012. The third reading starts later today. Each post is extensively annotated with contextual information and is well worth a read.