This week's update features Holocaust Memorial Day, the 'secret' Tube and recycled movie costumes.
* During the First World War, up to 12 million letters a week were delivered to soldiers, many on the front line. How did they get there?
* This week, the Government's Special Representative for the Great War centenary commemorations, Dr Andrew Murrison, called on people to keep politics out of the First World War anniversary, but can it be done?
* The story of Henry Webber, the 67-year-old soldier who became one of the First World War's oldest victims.
* Drunk, broke and obsessed with sex, the British Tommies of 1914 were unlikely heroes.
* Private Henry Tandey VC: The man who didn’t shoot Hitler.
* Never again? Upon the centenary of the First World War, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the German foreign minister, asks people to heed the lessons of 1914.
* The 27 January is Holocaust Memorial Day and the annual commemoration offers the perfect opportunity to ensure that each generation never forgets the horrors that were perpetrated in the concentration camps. Holocaust survivors share their stories whilst Martin Winstone looks at tourism and the Holocaust.
* Safe house: the centre for Holocaust survivors in North London.
* The true story of the 'Monument Men' who saved the world's art treasures from Hitler and the Nazis.
* Richard J. Evans asks was Lord Northcliffe the ultimate practical joker?
* Stunning images of the ancient ghost city of Ani: 'the city of a thousand and one churches'.
* Anne Helen Petersen discusses the real fantasy of Downton Abbey.
* WARNING: be prepared to spend your entire lunch hour on this blog - recycled movie costumes (because you know you have seen that dress somewhere else before!)
* What is it like on the ‘secret' Tube? Deep under the streets of the capital, a disused railway tunnel known as the London Post Office Railway stretches for 6 miles. After being shut for a decade, there are now plans to reopen it as a tourist ride.
* Christopher Smith revels in reappraisals of both Augustus, 2,000 years after his death, and of Cleopatra, the so-nearly queen of Rome.
* Australia or jail: which was worse for seventeenth- and eighteenth-century criminals?
Which history and publishing stories have you enjoyed reading this week?