Annabel Barber

Annabel Barber, author of the new Blue Guide to the city, leads you to its hidden gems, far from the madding crowd of tourists ‘My desire to see Rome was so intense that I could wait no longer. And finally – here I am! The dreams of my youth are coming true.’ Thus gushed Goethe in 1786. And who doesn’t feel something similar, with a trip to Rome in their sights? The tickets are booked, the hotel room secured. All that remains to do is plan an itinerary.

Today in 1914, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, a month after the murder of Franz Ferdinand, sparking WWI. The late Norman Stone spent his last years in Budapest. Here he praises the great metropolis with Annabel Barber, author of the new Blue Guide to the city The Times in 1913 had a great correspondent in Vienna, Henry Wickham Steed, whose book on the Habsburg Monarchy is still worth reading. He is particularly good on the insane taxes then.

The non-governmental organization (NGO) enables physicians, nurses, and medics trained in the US to provide care for patients in war-torn regions, including Ukraine and northern Iraq.1,2 “I was sitting on my couch during a long weekend, and I just Googled ‘How do you start a 501(c)(3) nonprofit?’ At the time, I wasn’t sure this was going to amount to anything, so I just made up a name that represented what I hoped to do—have a global impact and provide medical and surgical services—and I just...