This collection features seven pieces of historical fiction (prose and poetry), each inspired by figures who appear in Samuel Pepys’s diary of the 1660s. The authors are Liz Cashdan, Selina Lock, Ben Payne, Narimaan Shafi, Hazel Stuart, Elizabeth Uter, and Sue Wright. These pieces were developed during creative writing workshops run by the ‘Reimagining the Restoration’ project. The workshops introduced members of the public to new research on Pepys’s diary, with a focus on figures...