The Friday Digest brings you the best of the week's history news gathered from the experts:
* As the anniversary of the start of the First World War draws nearer, media focus on the impact the war had on both civilians and soldiers is intensifying and the Telegraph is just one newspaper that is collecting your First World War memories. Thanks to years of history lessons at school, many people know about the state of Europe in the build up to war and perhaps even the countries who were first involved, but not many people know the name of the man who started the First World War: Gavrilo Princip, the teenage assassin.
* Next week on BBC TV there’s an interesting looking film about The Wipers Times. This is based on the true story of Captain Fred Roberts and Lieutenant Jack Pearson who discovered a printing press in the bombed-out ruins of Ypres in 1916 and used it to create a satirical newspaper to raise the spirits of the soldiers in the trenches. But where did Roberts, Person et al get their ideas for content from? George Simmers has a few ideas...
* A model of a First World War battle site, which was built by German prisoners of war, is to be excavated and reburied. The mock battlefield was constructed at Cannock Chase, Staffordshire under the supervision of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade. The site was used to train soldiers ahead of the final push in the 'Great War' and thousands of soldiers are believed to have used this and other similar training camps.
* The £189m Library of Birmingham, which houses a collection of one million books, was officially opened by Malala Yousafzai on Tuesday 3 September and the Bookseller has taken a look inside. The opening of the library has been met with near widespread approval but others are asking whether the £189m price tag is justified.
Personally, I can't wait to visit and spend an hour (or two) wandering around the new library, but what do you think?
* This eerie collection of photographs of London's winters from the early twentieth century is sure to send a chill down your spine. Included are images of the 'Great Smog' of 1952 and many of the other, long and drawn-out winters of the 1900s.
* The clock at Findlater's Corner is a common sight to many Londoners but what is the story behind the place where time has truly stopped?
* Futurebook asks publishers, how do you make money when everything else is going free?
* 7 top business tips from Breaking Bad's Walter White.
* Sam Missingham can't help but love Amazon's first UK TV ad, which simply has 52 seconds of children sharing exactly what they love about reading.
* A reader shares a charming photo diary of two months spent living in the Shakespeare and Company bookstore on Paris’s Left Bank.
* Classic books in 140 characters
* The Battle of Flodden between the English and Scots at Branxton on 9 September 1513 left almost 14,000 people, including King James IV, dead and now excavation work to find the remains of thousands of bodies buried on the Flodden battlefield in Northumberland has begun. History Extra interviewed the excavation director Chris Burgess, who confirmed that there are currently no plans to exhume any remains. Instead the team will inform English Heritage of their location, to allow the burials to be declared war graves or protected from further intrusion.
* Sir David Frost, the broadcaster and writer, died earlier this week, at the age of 74. His career spanned journalism, comedy writing and daytime television presenting, including The Frost Report but he is best known for his revealing interviews with former US President Richard Nixon in the aftermath of the Watergate scandal. If you haven't seen the film Frost/Nixon then definitely do watch it, even if you aren't interested in politics, it is absolutely fascinating!
* I always enjoy reading the Historical Honey blog and their 'September issues' of modern magazines reimagined with historical figures really made me laugh - who wouldn't want advice on how to powder their wig from Marie Antoinette?!
* A boat neck sweater made of warm wool and woven in diamond twill was a dominating fashion trend among reindeer hunters 1,700 years ago, according to researchers who have investigated an extremely well preserved Iron Age tunic found two years ago under melting snow in Norway. Announced last March, the finding has been detailed in the current issue of the journal Antiquity.
* Julia Margaret Cameron was a British photographer who became known for her portraits of Victorian celebrities and now the Metropolitan Museum in New York is hosting 'Julia Margaret Cameron,' a small, striking show which displays a number of her photographs.
* The Great Fire of London destroyed over 400 acres of London, including 13,200 houses and 87 of 109 churches between 2 September and 5 September 1666, but surprisingly not all buildings were destroyed. Here, the Telegraph shares 10 buildings that survived the Great Fire of London.
* Local TV may be coming to a screen near you soon - but not for the first time, as the UK already has a rich history of local television. Social historian Joe Moran asks if viewers really wanted to watch pub darts and barber shop singers?
* Was Winston Churchill really commenting on arts funding? How Twitter twists history to suit modern agendas.
* Historians and forensic scientists have re-examined the Appin murder of 1752 using modern techniques as part of a cold case review. The case has always been controversial and despite James Stewart being convicted and hung for the shooting and killing of Colin Campbell in an Argyll wood, others have been suspected of being the killer, including Stewart's son Donald and foster son Ailean Breac.
* How the first out-of-town superstore changed the UK forever.
* Marking 50 years of a 60s icon: the humble lava lamp.
* An account of the interactions between third-century China and the Roman Empire in the 'Weilüe'.
Which history and publishing stories have you enjoyed reading this week?