This week's update features 'walking corpse' delusion, the Victorian Titanic and the German centenary commemorations.
* So far this year the First World War centenary commemorations have been high on the agenda for many people in the UK but in Germany people rarely visit First World War cemeteries and Germany's low-key plans for the centenary have been criticised, but why?
* Just how close did the world come to peace in 1914?
* From murderous saints to soldiers who cut off their own heads in battle, here's ten very weird history facts ...
* Historical Honey round up the best historical finds on Etsy - I like the sound of the illustrations printed on pages from Victorian books ...
* The heroes and rogues of RMS Tayleur- the Victorian Titanic.
* Did Victorian prudery end female 'slavery' down the mines?
* Leeds' 'ghost signs' bring the city's hidden past into plain view.
* How accurate is 12 Years a Slave? Fact and fiction in one of the year's biggest blockbusters.
* Can you recommend historical fiction for children and teenagers which isn't about the world wars?
* 19 things women writers are sick of hearing ...
* How to complete every writing project you start. Become a completion addict.
* Was Stonehenge a giant glockenspiel? A new study looks at the acoustic properties of the Stonehenge bluestones.
* The first exhibition of the work of author Enid Blyton opens in Newscastle, forty-five years after her death.
* Terry Deary marks the twentieth anniversary of Horrible Histories by visiting a bookshop in Cumbria.
* A book stored in Cambridge for the last two centuries has been identified as a rare record of early Chinese music. It is believed the book was printed in China at around 1770.
* Could textbooks be replaced by iTunes U downloads?
* Damaged Pompeii is to receive emergency rescue fund to save the ancient city, after flooding caused walls to collapse.
* Is this an eighteenth-century case of Cotard or 'walking corpse' delusion?
* The White Lady - was she the first of Shakespeare's lovers?
* Thursday 6 March was World Book Day, with people celebrating their love of both print and ebooks. But which books would never be on your shelves and how should you organise the ones that are?
* Robert McCrum's controversial article claims that publishing as we knew it is dead with the credit crunch and the internet making writing the hardest it has ever been. Tom Morton's witty response is well worth a read, as is the Bookseller's.