The carefully selected sources I have chosen to use are ‘The Concise Pepys’ edited by Lord Braybrooke, ‘A Pepys Anthology’ Edited by Robert and Linnet Latham, ‘Samuel Pepys and his world’ by Geoffrey Trease and ‘Samuel Pepys: the Unequalled Self’ by Claire Tomalin. One the other hand I will take into consideration some of the limitations of the diary, which includes most notably the fact that it only covers the early part of the Restoration period. I will argue that the diary is one of the most valuable source available to a historian studying this time period namely because it offers an almost unbiased eyewitness account of some of the key events of the early reign of Charles II.
The tensions between Catholics and Protestants are still relevant today as it emphasises how religion can deeply divide areas most notably in the Middle East. I chose this particular question because this particular time, which saw struggles between the King and Parliament as well as between Catholics and Protestants, directly caused the Glorious Revolution of 1688 which in turn defined the future of British politics and role of the monarch. Introduction This essay will analyse the usefulness of the Diary of Samuel Pepys to a historian studying the history of Restoration England.
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