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The Friday Digest brings you the best of the week's history news gathered from the experts:
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* The Royal Albert Hall, Science Museum and many other iconic London institutions are located in 'Albertopolis' in Kensington, a cultural quarter which owes its existence to the vision of Prince Albert, Queen Victoria's consort. His (rather ambitious) dream was to create a permanent home for all of the arts and sciences in the capital focusing on their international importance and his cultural impact cannot be denied.
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* These Victorian news stories are absolutely fascinating, although I'm not sure that I would want a pet wasp or crocodile...
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* Michael Noll shares seven lessons every writer must learn.
* History Today share their expert tips on how to write a good history essay.
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* Publishing Perspectives asks whether the digital era will ever produce as influential a book critic as Marcel Reich-Ranickim, a man once described as 'the greatest literary critic not only in Germany, but in the world.'
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* Waterstones Oxford Street shares how books get into their store (not really).
* An introduction to the 100 best novels ever written is sure to cause controversy; who have the Observer left off the list?
* The Guardian discusses what happens when your favourite authors become an addiction.
* The story of one woman who spent a year reading one book from every nation in the world.
* Quizzes are always fun and this one has been amusing the office this week: which literary character are you?
* As a writer, not everyone is going to like what you write but Digital Book World have listed 5 ways for authors to handle bad reviews.
* Who wrote Great Expectations? Who was the genius behind Hamlet? A new survey shows just how few adults are reading the classics.
* More than 500 independent bookshops have shut in the UK and Ireland since 2005, according to the Booksellers Association but what can bookshops do to lure readers back into their stores?
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* Thousands of people have taken the chance to have a look inside Battersea Power Station before its £8bn redevelopment with 5 hour queues lining the river bank of the Thames.
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* The strange world of urban exploration; just what is its appeal?
* Animated maps are having a bit of a 'moment' recently. Last week it was the First World War which featured, this week it's an animated Map of Europe from 1000 AD to the present day.
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* Italian archaeologists have unearthed a 2,600-year-old intact Etruscan tomb that promises to reveal new insights into one of the ancient world’s most fascinating and mysterious cultures.
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* Members of the Richard III Society have withdrawn funding meant for the king's tomb at Leicester Cathedral because they are unhappy with the design. Will Richard III ever be reinterred?
* Scientists have found a mummified dog infested with bloodsucking parasites. This provides the first archaeological evidence of bloodsucking parasites in Egypt during the classical era of Roman rule.
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* The discovery of a sacred Roman well in Portsmouth is 'the most significant archaeological discovery in the area for many years' say archaeologists
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* Looking for something fun to do this afternoon? Why not give yourself a historical makeover?
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* Brutalist architecture may not be everyone's cup of tea but it is still a key period of our heritage that needs preserving, so the news that Preston Bus Station has been given Grade II listed status is fantastic.
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* Good news for Austen fans! Her ring is to stay in the UK after the Jane Austen's House Museum raised the money to compete with US singer Kelly Clarkson.
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* How to tell your beloved that you love her, eighteenth-century style...
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* Miss Piggy joins Kermit in Museum of American History as twenty-one puppets created by Jim Henson for The Muppet Show, Sesame Street and Fraggle Rock have been donated.
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* Mary, Queen of Scots, is to be portrayed on television and film later this year but does she make an interesting protagonist?
* Charles Emmerson makes the case that, prior to the outbreak of the First World War, Russia was on the cusp of a social revolution, one that would leave the country '[dominating] Europe by the middle of the century, politically as much as economically and financially'. This collection of newsreel clips shows Russia between 1910 and 1913 but do you agree with Emmerson's theory?
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* Art fanatics are thrilled this week as a new Titian painting has been discovered by an Austrian professor and a long-lost Vincent Van Gogh painting has been discovered in Norway.
Which history and publishing stories have you enjoyed reading this week?