The Friday Digest brings you the best of the week's history news gathered from the experts:
* The saga of Richard III's burial continues to roll on as a new design for his tomb has been revealed by Leicester Cathedral. The plans include a raised tomb featuring a deeply carved cross laid on an inlaid floor featuring a large white York rose.
* These twenty animated historical maps showing the history of the First World War are really useful as an introduction to a very complex topic.
* The remarkable story of Tommy Keele: the First World War soldier who spent two years of the war as 'First Girl', playing female parts in theatres behind the lines for the entertainment of sex-starved soldiers.
* A book no bigger than a grain of rice is part of a new exhibition of miniature books at the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh.
* A university professor has been spared a fine of more than £8,500 after discovering he was in possession of a library book that was forty-seven years overdue.
* The Guardian asks what's the worst book on your bookshelves?
* Rae Earl makes a compelling argument for why she wants her diaries burned after her death.
* A glimpse into the wonderful world of Roald Dahl and his inspirations.
* Publishing Perspectives asks if books should tell you how long it will take to read them.
* The eighteenth century: when reading became fashionable.
* Joshua Safran shares how a library card changed his life.
* Just what is the Man Booker Prize?
* 2013: Why this is the best Man Booker shortlist in a decade.
* A map of the settings (both real and imagined) for every Booker prize contender since 1969.
* The Man Booker Prize has extended its criteria and will from next year accept any novels originally published in English by a UK publisher. These changes have caused more than a little consternation and the Bookseller has rounded up some of the media coverage.
* Enjoy a pictorial history of the London Underground and its graphic legacy. There are some really fantastic posters in here; if anyone knows where I can get hold of a print of the 'It's cooler/warmer below' posters, then please let me know!
* From Regent's Park to the British Museum: a London tour in Tube posters.
* Everyone likes to look their best and Historical Honey have a post on how to dress like a Georgian showing the (many) layers that Georgian women had to wear. I had no idea that the clothing was so complex!
* Janet Stephens, the 'hairdo archaeologist' talks about solving the ancient fashion mystery of how exactly these elaborate hairstyles were held together.
* From Elizabeth I's miniature to Anne Boleyn's 'B' necklace, which historical items would you most like to own?
* Jeff Carney: the extraordinary story of the lonely US airman turned Stasi spy.
* You would assume that medicine has moved on since the 1700s, but we are still using fertility statistics that are 300 years old. Perhaps it is time for an update!
* Buzzfeed shares 19 strange and delightful facts about British history.
* A century after Robert Falcon Scott’s ill-fated trek to the South Pole, SS Terra Nova, the ship that brought him to Antarctica has been found off the coast of Greenland.
* Sixty years after the Korean War, the veterans were honoured in a ceremony on Saturday afternoon at Parkside Place in Upper Gwynedd. Here 273 Korean War Veterans of Montgomery County received medals commemorating their service from the Korean government.
* A stunning collection of street photography from nineteenth-century London from photographer John Thomson.
* Joanne Bailey muses on the history of beds, marital sex, and adultery...
* The interior of the Tower of Pisa has been mapped in 3D using a hand-held spring-mounted laser scanner. The people involved in the project are hoping that their work can be used for future projects and conservation work.
* 19 truly awful Puritan baby names - I can't imagine why Die-Well Sykes isn't still popular today!
* An extremely eerie look at the shipping magnate's forty-bedroom mansion that has been left untouched for over twenty-five years.
Which history and publishing stories have you enjoyed reading this week?