Simon Parkin discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known.
Simon Parkin is a contributing writer for the New Yorker, and a critic for the Observer newspaper. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and the author of three books. His most recent, The Island of Extraordinary Captives, about the Hutchinson internment camp on the Isle of Man, is a New York Times recommended read, and winner of the 2023 Wingate Literary Prize. He previously wrote A Game of Birds and Wolves and Death by Video Game.

Bertha Bracey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09DF0zeuFXM
A cure for insomnia https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/sep/14/finally-a-cure-for-insomnia
Webster’s Second Edition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webster%27s_Dictionary
Mikado arcade https://www.ign.com/articles/2018/12/30/inside-game-center-mikado-one-of-the-best-arcades-in-japan
Fact checkers https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-art-of-fact-checking
War games https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-deadly-war-game-of-the-battle-of-the-atlantic/


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