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Sex, Lice and Chamber Pots in Pepys' London

By Liza Picard

Do you want to know what people ate and drank in Restoration London? Or what they wore and how they amused themselves? Apply to S. Pepys. He was a serious, career-minded civil servant for most of the working day, but as soon as his duties were done - and sometimes sooner - he had fun. Providentially for us, he wrote it all down.

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