https://georgebarber.blog Notes, but tidier. en-GB https://georgebarber.blog/writing/why-i-dont-want-to-live-alone-with-my-partner/ https://georgebarber.blog/writing/why-i-dont-want-to-live-alone-with-my-partner/ Tue, 05 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT An essay about the nuclear household, friendship, family structures, and why living as a pair should not feel like the only imaginable route into adult life. https://georgebarber.blog/writing/revision-guide-development-of-the-world-economy-since-1800/ https://georgebarber.blog/writing/revision-guide-development-of-the-world-economy-since-1800/ Tue, 05 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT This is a revision guide to one of my economics modules at Oxford, named History of the World Economy (previously Development of the World Economy since 1800). https://georgebarber.blog/writing/you-are-not-your-type/ https://georgebarber.blog/writing/you-are-not-your-type/ Fri, 04 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT An article I wrote for Pi Media, UCL's student magazine which I help edit. https://georgebarber.blog/writing/learning-to-live/ https://georgebarber.blog/writing/learning-to-live/ Fri, 04 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT An AI-assisted guide based on notes I have taken over the years. It should reflect my views, but it is not original writing. https://georgebarber.blog/writing/worlds-apart-isolation-and-alienation-in-becketts-murphy-and-isherwoods-a-single-man/ https://georgebarber.blog/writing/worlds-apart-isolation-and-alienation-in-becketts-murphy-and-isherwoods-a-single-man/ Fri, 14 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT This was an extended essay I wrote for my A Level English coursework (or Pre-U "Personal Investigation"). It is dense, but I'm still rather proud of it - it took me ages and was quite a personal project. https://georgebarber.blog/writing/networking-or-nepotism/ https://georgebarber.blog/writing/networking-or-nepotism/ Sat, 08 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT This is an article I wrote for UCL's Pi Media. https://georgebarber.blog/writing/cooperation-or-coordination-the-case-for-a-new-climate-strategy/ https://georgebarber.blog/writing/cooperation-or-coordination-the-case-for-a-new-climate-strategy/ Wed, 05 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT A piece I wrote for UCL's Green Economy Society https://georgebarber.blog/writing/writing-sample-journalistic/ https://georgebarber.blog/writing/writing-sample-journalistic/ Wed, 05 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT Part of an Editorial I wrote for Pi Media, UCL's student magazine. https://georgebarber.blog/writing/writing-sample-academic-essay/ https://georgebarber.blog/writing/writing-sample-academic-essay/ Mon, 03 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT This was written during one of my 'collections' at the University of Oxford. It was written in one hour, under exam conditions, and I have only gone back over it to correct typos. https://georgebarber.blog/tools/document-summariser/ https://georgebarber.blog/tools/document-summariser/ Mon, 03 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT A Python script for parsing long documents into headed sections and generating concise academic-style summaries while preserving references, technical language, and structure. https://georgebarber.blog/writing/learning-to-learn-2/ https://georgebarber.blog/writing/learning-to-learn-2/ Sun, 23 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT An AI-assisted guide based on notes I have taken over the years. It should reflect my views, but it is not original writing.