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A Very Pepysian Christmas
by Marlo Avidon (@marloavidon.bsky.social) In seventeenth-century England, Christmas services could be a drawn-out affair. For Restoration diarist Samuel Pepys, the lengthy 1667 Christmas Eve service in the Royal Chapel proved especially tedious; his attempt to combat his boredom led to one of the most shocking passages of his Diary. After arriving at the Royal Chapel and…
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