This video offers some quick questions/points that might be considered when writing about Samuel Pepys' Diary entry covering the Great Fire of London in 1666. / https://dc.etsu.edu/lit-outlines-complete-oer/1000/thumbnail.jpg

The Historical Value of the Diaries of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn. (1660-1670.) / Thesis / Master of Arts (MA)

This is a study of Samuel Pepys diary where the focal point is emotions in his professional life, emotions are understood through Barbara H. Rosenweins theory of Emotional Communities. The main part is made up of two chronological chapters following through the ten years Pepys kept a diary. The point is to illuminate Pepys professional life in the British Royal Navy through the perspective of emotions. We follow Pepys’s professional development, where emotions is discussed in relation to concepts such as personal interest and social status. From the first years of the diary to latter perspectives of him turning into the great naval administrator he became known as. Pepys in his professional sphere strictly controlled his emotions and soared above his competitors. He was a man who was puritan raised, highly emotional, educated and curious - on the fringes of the power epicentre in restoration-era England.