This week's update features the forgotten Scottish troops of the First World War, a mysterious 600-year-old manuscript written in an unknown language and a hundred books to read in your lifetime.
* Just why have the 52nd (Lowland) Division been omitted from the centenary commemorations so far? @ScotlandsWar look at the forgotten Scottish troops of the First World War.
* First World War letters and drawings from University of Manchester students have gone on show for the first time.
* A look at the fascinating objects which are mute witnesses to the horrors of the First World War.
* Emma Gough shares her experience of interning at Historic Royal Palaces.
* Robert Galbraith’s (aka. J.K. Rowling’s) follow up to The Cuckoo’s Calling is titled The Silkworm and will debut this June, according to the publisher.
* Breweries often dominated their communities and their closures mourned not just for the loss of jobs but for the loss of a household name. But what has happened to these sites since their closure?
* With a credible claim to be the oldest living currency in the world, the pound has an interesting history. But is Scotland soon to end its use of the currency?
* Was H.G. Wells the first celebrity charity campaigner?
For many years the pictures that came out of Lebanon were of bomb-damaged buildings and human tragedy, but an archive of photographs from the 1950s to 1970s reveals a very different picture.
* A public encounter between the sons of two high-ranking Nazis, Niklas Frank and Horst von Wächter, raises disturbing questions for Britain as well as Germany.
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* A breakthrough has been made in attempts to decipher the Voynich Manuscript, a mysterious 600-year-old manuscript written in an unknown language. The manuscript, carbon-dated to the 1400s, was rediscovered in 1912, but has defied codebreakers since.
* Five trips for crime fiction lovers.
* Moving stories: what do you do with your books when you change houses?
* Can't kick the habit: why do so many writers create fictional nuns?
* The hundred books to read in your lifetime.
* National Libraries Day - have you visited your local library recently?
Which history and publishing stories have you enjoyed reading this week?