Welcome to the first Friday Digest of 2014!
* No matter what anyone may try to tell you, there is no cure for a hangover when you have overindulged at Christmas. Not even this 1940s ice-cube mask can help you.
* The first day at work after the holidays is always a challenge but we're excited to be back! Here's a round-up of the news you missed over the Christmas break.
* The start of the new year also marked the return of Sherlock Holmes: a very British superhero to our television screens, but is Holmes a hero or an anti-hero?
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* The New Year's Day episode of Sherlock included a plot line about abandoned London Underground stations but why do people find them so alluring? For those interested in Tube stations, this ghost map of London's Underground is fascinating!
* From Victorian eyelash transplants and depilation by cancerous X-rays: the most dangerous beauty treatments through the ages.
* Everyone is fixated on the anniversary of the start of the First World War, but there is another German anniversary to commemorate in 2014.
* What would have happened if Germany had won the First World War?
* A guide to Second World War propaganda and what it really meant.
* One man's miraculous wartime escape.
* History Extra examines the aftermath of the Second World War.
* Putting right the wrong done to Alan Turing.
* Michelangelo’s handwritten and illustrated grocery list for his illiterate servant.
* The 2,400-year-old terracotta baby bottle that doubled up as a toy rattle.
* A designer has created a robotic servant that helps to dry hands using an 800-year-old Arabic design.
* One reader's Kindle envy...
* Restoration work has begun on the Colosseum after a $33 million donation from Diego della Valle, the owner of the luxury leather goods company Tod's. Valle told CBS News, 'I am very proud to be Italian,' and added, 'This is the most important Italian monument and symbol.'
* Historical Honey profile Georgiana Cavendish, one of history's most fascinating characters.
* In their own enthralling words, the heroism of the forgotten British troops who fought in the Korean War.
Which history and publishing stories have you enjoyed reading this week?