This week's update features female porters, the truth about 'Lionheart' Richard I and Ernest Hemingway's favourite burger recipe.
* 'Porters in skirts!': the 117,000 women who kept Britain’s railways running during the First World War.
* Just whose fault was it anyway? 10 interpretations of who started the First World War.
* Why were journalists threatened with execution during the First World War?
* An amazing lost photo-journal reveals the story of Alfred Griffiths, a Cardiff soldier in the First World War.
* How do German students learn about the Holocaust?
* A fascinating look at Douglas Slocombe: the cameraman who escaped the Nazi invasion of Poland.
* As you may have guessed from the proliferation of hearts and sickly sweet messages that surround you, today is Valentine's Day. If you are looking for the perfect quote to sum up your love for someone, why not look at Penguin's #lovebooks collection? We would advise against buying your loved one this medieval lingerie though ...
* If you are in charge of cooking a romantic dinner this evening, why not try Ernest Hemingway's favourite burger recipe?
* Web Design Blog have gathered together more than 100 portraits of iconic people but who is missing off their list?
* @HistoryInPics, @HistoricalPics, @History_Pics: Why the wildly popular Twitter accounts are bad for history.
* Here are 25 unbelievable historic pictures of Britons taking on the Thames floods... and winning.
* The Guardian's list of the 100 best novels is moving on apace, at number 21 is a personal favourite, George Eliots's Middlemarch. It may be a fairly hefty tome but it is well worth a read!
* Does a book’s cover change how you read the story?
* It is a truth universally acknowledged that we can’t all be Lizzy Bennet but which Jane Austen heroine are you?
* Child actress and political ambassador, Shirley Temple died earlier this week,find out more about her fascinating life here.
* Anne Boleyn’s lapdog and John Quincy Adams’s alligator: Greg Jenner on famous people in history and their bizarre pets.
* Archaeologists at the University of Otago have discovered New Zealand's first mission station and school in Kerikeri in the Far North with the discovery providing insight into the first contact between Maori and European settlers.
* Is this the first recorded instance of the F-word in English?
* A large-scale investigation of British archaeological sites dating from around 4,600 BC to 1,400 AD has examined millions of fragments of bone and analysed over 1,000 cooking pots to trace ancient British diets.
* 'Lionheart' Richard I: a mighty king or a menacing tyrant?
* From Richard I to Richard III, whose hair and eye colour are ‘to be revealed’ through DNA genome sequencing.
* Have you been taken back in time yet with the Field Trip app?
Which history and publishing stories have you enjoyed reading this week?