News of the Old
Simon BarberPast lives.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 21 | Founded | 2 years ago | Last Issue | 5 months ago |
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"Maître du Pitié"
April-September 1916
Margery was in England for less than a month. She might have stayed longer had she achieved what her father called “her first ambition” — “to nurse German soldiers to requite the kindness she had received and to...
I'm back.
It has been a while since I last posted news of the old. I lost the plot when a newspaper I once worked for asked me to resume a Washington column before the 2024 US election. I couldn’t resist a return to writing about the new. The thrill...
Doña Quixota
April 1915-March 1916
The Serbs sent the Berry unit to Vrnjača Banja, a spa town in the highlands 80 miles south of Belgrade. Margery joined them in late April. For their HQ and hospital, the Berry’s had chosen the Terapia, a fashion...
A Passage to Serbia
April 1915
By the following spring, the rector’s mad daughter was at sea again, off to nurse in the Balkans, surplus no more. She owed the adventure to her brother Clement and the scarlet fever he brought home from the army. She caug...
A Surplus Woman
The Land of Promise, a play by Somerset Maugham, opened at the Duke of York’s Theatre in London’s West End on February 26, 1914. Irene Vanbrugh starred as a paid companion who seeks a new life in Manitoba after her employer dies and leaves...
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At various stages classicist, reporter, foreign correspondent, pundit, speechwriter, propagandist, ghost writer and audiobook narrator. Husband and proud parent. Friend of rabbits.
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