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    A back in time

    Apr 05, 2019 4 minutes
    WORDS LAURA SILVERMAN

    Samuel Pepys is fortunate not to live today. He would, one imagines, be addicted to social media and would be constantly vowing to undertake a digital detox for the good of his mental health. For even the most prolific Facebook scribbler would struggle to match his output. Pepys’ diary comprised more than a million words. It spanned 1660 to 1669 – a period scarred by the Great Plague, the Great Fire of London and the Second Anglo-Dutch War (a squabble over trade routes) – and mixes social commentary with affairs and morsels about food.

    But who was Pepys? Aside from a diarist, he was to become a big

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