Text settings. April 5th 1666. What Pepys’s plague diaries can teach us about coronavirus. We're seeing it all over the place right now, with calls for a 'Blitz spirit'. The diaries written by Pepys cover the months when the plague first hit London in 1665 to the time in September when it was at its worst to the time in winter when the plague became less of an issue.

‘Bills of mortality’ were regularly posted. 16 March 2020, 12:24pm. In terms of lethality coronavirus bears no comparison with the more deadly bubonic plague, but re-reading Pepys’ diary it is fascinating to see the parallels between 1665 and 2020. Samuel Pepys left for the world a graphic description of the impact of the plague in London in 1665. Pepys feared that “the plague [is] making us cruel, as doggs, one to another”.

Samuel Pepys (/piːps/ PÎPS [1]), né le 23 février 1633 à Londres et mort le 26 mai 1703 à Clapham, est un haut fonctionnaire de l'Amirauté anglaise, Membre du Parlement (député) et diariste anglais. In grave times, people look to history for comparisons. The bureaucrat was, of course, Samuel Pepys, and the year was 1665. He tells of coming across sick people and corpses, his horror at the sheer numbers of dead, and then how the toll started to decrease as the weather grew cold at the end of the year. © Provided by Evening Standard Julian Glover (Daniel Hambury) Then, as now, not everyone followed the rules. Just as we follow these numbers closely today, Pepys documented the growing number of plague victims in his diary. Pepys wrote his diaries for himself though because they were so well laid out it is probable that he had an inkling that they would have one day been published. His anxiety was well founded, for by the spring of 1665, plague had reached these shores, and in June Pepys wrote, ‘to my great trouble, hear that the plague is come into the City’. Screenshots of this, attributed to Samuel Pepys in 1664, get passed around Twitter and Facebook as if it’s a prescient example of Pepys’s diarising. The plague is, to our great grief, encreased nine this week, though decreased a few in the total.

Pepys’ great diary lays bare the terrors, horrors and abyss of ignorance prevailing almost four centuries ago, matching those that threaten our own society. Samuel Pepys FRS (/ p iː p s / PEEPS; 23 February 1633 – 26 May 1703) was an administrator of the navy of England and Member of Parliament who is most famous for the diary he kept for a decade while still a relatively young man. One of these quotes is from the London plague diary of Samuel Pepys.The other is a spoof that’s done the rounds on Twitter. M@ Is The Samuel Pepys Coronavirus Quote Genuine? Pepys' diaries offer a firsthand account of living through that awful year. Samuel Pepys' Diary with information about his life and the 17th century background.

The diaries written by Pepys cover the months when the plague first hit London in 1665 to the time in September when it was at its worst to the time in winter when the plague became less of an issue.

What they give an historian is an insight into a … Everyone’s home-schooling so let’s start with a test.