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Today, Samuel Peeps is chiefly famous as a great writer.

He kept his voluminous, intimate, detailed diaries from 1660 to 1669.

And they give us insights into restoration London like nothing else.

His journal is a fascinating source on his society, but not just about his own life,

but the lives of the people around him whose experiences went otherwise unrecorded.

But Peeps was also a great reader.

In a lovely line, he wrote of how he desired to read above almost everything else,

my eyes which would be reading.

Through his love of books, we can learn about how people read in the 17th century.

His diary, his surviving papers and his huge extant library can tell us about reading habits,

literacy and the circulation of books and ideas.

You may never have thought that you needed to know this,

but I promise you it is revelatory and really helps us see the realities of life in the past in a new way.

And the person who has done the work to bring those revelations to us is Dr. Kate Loveman,

associate professor in English literature at the University of Leicester.

She has edited and annotated Peeps' diary for every man and her monograph,

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