This week's update features love letters from the trenches, fashion laws and fasting.
* A number of First World War unit diaries were placed online by the National Archives this week. The documents detail day-to-day activities on the frontline as well as details of battle engagements
* For the next four years, people will be looking back at those who were killed but can we ever really know 'the lost generation'?
* Teaching the First World War: what do Europe's pupils learn about the conflict?
* A new book has gathered together love letters and other correspondence to and from soldiers fighting in the First World War and they are heart-wrenching.
* Melting glaciers in Peio,a small alpine ski resort in northern Italy, have revealed the corpses of First World War soldiers that have been preserved for a century.
* History Today discuss the complex origins of the First World War.
* Should Lord Kitchener's image be used on the new £2 coin?
* Approximately 26 million people died on the Eastern Front and up to 4 million are still officially considered missing in action, but a team of volunteers have taken up the search for their bodies.
* As a stock of famous writers' wills are posted online, we can be glad of the insights they give us into their authors.
* According to official papers published after almost 150 years, armed insurrectionists plotted to kidnap Queen Victoria while she was in residence in Balmoral.
* Twenty beautifully illustrated quotes from some of your favourite authors.
* Work to build a £1 million rail link between two heritage railway lines used as film sets has begun this week in Loughborough.
* A Journal of English Renaissance Studies discusses the art of recovering Richard III.
* Historical Honey share their top ten British castles, but which ones would you add to the list?
* A map showing British County flags, but which is your favourite?
* Proofreading and copy-editing explained...
* Varosha: the Mediterranean tourist resort that has been abandoned for forty years.
* Scientists investigating a murder mystery dating back more than eighty years have made a breakthrough that could finally identify the victim.
* Diets and fasts have now become de rigeur but some religious organisations have been fasting for years: here is a monk's guide to fasting.
* The secret history of fashion laws.
* A guide to suffragette style by Lucy Adlington.
* The BBC is celebrating sixty years of the British TV weather forecast. The weather may get a gloomy reception from most Brits but the weather presenters were much more warmly received.
* It is hard to see many upsides to the horrible storms we have been having recently, but the discovery of this wreck of The Sunbeam at Rossbeigh Strand in Co. Kerry which had been embedded in the sand for 111 years is something to celebrate.
* Historical Honey share an 'off the beaten track' guide to London.
* James Beardon takes a look at London during the Second World War.
* Be more than a reader: how to support your favourite authors.
* The decline and fall of the book reviewing empire.
* We Love This Book share the best books of 2014.
* Publishing Perspectives share some thoughts on digital publishing in 2014.
* The future of the book (part 654).
* Big Brother is watching you e-read Mein Kampf
* Scientists have found the secret to writing a bestselling novel. The secret? Avoid cliches and excessive usage of verbs...
* The bulletproof bookcase that can save lives.
* Rachel Cooke asks how can we make sense of the world without reading stories?
* Dear diary, how did you become part of our literary culture?
Which history and publishing stories have you enjoyed reading this week?