EI Portraits — Nehemiah Wallington: Puritan chronicler who had far less fun than Pepys


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Apr 25 2024 13 mins   10
Vanessa Harding on the God-fearing diarist Nehemiah Wallington whose personality was far removed from the cosmopolitanism of Samuel Pepys, his fast-living contemporary. Read by Sebastian Brown.

Image: An excerpt from Nehemiah Wallington's diary, dated 1654. Credit: Folger Shakespeare Library.