Abstract
Samuel Pepys' Diary (1 660-1 669) contains a uniquely detailed record of public and private life in London during a turbulent decade of English urban history: a decade which saw the Restoration, the Plague, and the Great Fire of London. The Diary has been largely neglected by urban social geographers. Taking as a point of departure some theoretical ideas of Sennett, Arendt and Lofland, this paper examines Pepys' understandings of public and private urban spaces. A continuum of urban settings is described, distinguished by the amount of social/moral tension and commentary they elicited from Pepys. The preindustrial sumptuary order of social knowing is largely intact, but Lofland's new, spatially based social order is crystallizing at points of tension in the urban social space.
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