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Article: Diary of Samuel Pepys and EyeWitness.(WEB)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- December 18, 2003
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Byline: Tom Regan csmonitor.com
HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA -- Thanks to weblogs, online forums and personal websites, future historians (near future, anyway) are likely to have access to an overabundance of first-hand accounts of the mundanities of daily life - as well as world-changing events. Of course, there's no reason that the same tools can't be adapted to serve observations made before the invention of the Internet -or moveable type, for that matter- and the following examples make a compelling argument that oldies often remain goodies
Our first case is a site which will almost certainly become the most comprehensive example of the first-person ...