The Latest Breaking News from Samuel Pepys

Newly decoded extracts expose the celebrated 17th-century diarist and naval administrator as a rapacious abuser

Archaeologists in race to study HMS Northumberland as shifting sands expose part of well-preserved wreck

People keep diaries for all sorts of reasons – to record events, work through difficult situations, or manage stress and trauma. The ongoing COVID inquiry shows diaries also have important political and historic significance. The UK’s former chief scientific adviser Patrick Vallance’s diaries have been a key source of evidence,…

Exhibition at museum’s new site will focus on Thomas Dagger and other ordinary Londoners caught up in 1666 inferno

For Marilyn Monroe it was eggs in a glass of milk, for Muhammad Ali it was steak… Rebecca Seal reveals what seven great figures from history had for breakfast - and how you can make it for yourself

While anxiously waiting to see if she can afford to stay in her London flat, Eloise Hendy sought solace in Kieran Yates’s compelling memoir and manifesto ‘All the Houses I’ve Ever Lived In’. She speaks to her about the past and present of living in Britain

It is a difficult challenge. One Charles must rise to - because the monarchy is sewn into the fabric of the country. For good or ill, it makes us who we are. The light in the darkness, a fixed point for the nation

‘Not now, not ever’ they pledge

Signed copy of 1660 Declaration of Breda, which restored monarchy in Britain after Cromwell’s rule, goes on sale in May