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The Friday Digest 21/03/14

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This week's update features the origins of ebooks, the Ides of March and a comedy podcast inspired by the history of the Knights Templar (yes really!).


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The Martyrdom of St Edmund by Brian Whelan, 2004


* A painting depicting the death of St Edmund, the former King of East Anglia, is being recreated by 100 artists in Suffolk this weekend


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Goodreads image from http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/02/millions-of-people-reading-alone-together-the-rise-of-goodreads/283662/

 

The founders of Goodreads talk about its success after being bought by Amazon in 2013, and its goal of making literature a community experience.

 

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British Museum. Image from http://www.historicalhoney.com/road-christianity-british-museum-conversion-process/
 

 

* The road to Christianity: the British Museum on the conversion process.  


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* Are authors being bullied with one-star Amazon reviews? 


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Charlton Heston as Moses in The Ten Commandments (1956) Moses with some early tablets ... a 1989 hardware edition of the Bible was one of the precursors of today's ebooks. Photograph: Allstar/Cinetext/Paramount


* Where did the story of ebooks begin? 


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* Why are so few books from the twentieth century available as ebooks?


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An illustration of Julius Caesar's funeral pyre.


* Last Saturday, 15 March, marked the Ides of March but what are they and do we still observe them?


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The Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial in Oswiecim, Poland. Photograph: Czarek Sokolowski/AP


* A former Auschwitz medic was arrested in Germany this week on multiple charges of aiding and abetting murder


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* There has been lots of feedback online recently about what publishers should be doing, but what is Penguin Random House not doing?  


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The clock tower at the Gallery of Modern Art is due to be refurbished in time for the Commonwealth Games


Historic Scotland is to invest £2 million in old buildings to help repair Scotland's crumbling landmarks. 


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"Writing on the bus. #writing #work" by Tammy Strobel http://www.flickr.com/photos/8760851@N05/8334819262/in/photolist-dGw8oo-btYXts-8amXGb-aaHDon-9U2yCf-fVhMwU-b721Dr-ccW1Jj-bwaAVw-dCoqyu-8J3hcc-dChZRM-byh8i6-9U2C9h-gdd2w7-9pNca3-aR9RYx-aHJb9P-bzqbQd-ajwDhK-dLBzcN-dZBRpa-dQhhr8-9eJ92Y-c3PnNN-7Fro46-7Fro7M-cUBc6q-8gYbdY-8gUTWp-g7LV9q-8gUUx4-8gUUpt-8bpGBh-8gYbmY-8gUSF2-8gYah5-8zf4DX-8euxa7-e31R59-9eubb1-bDM49P-faVdj6-879rXQ-e3ZTVZ-eSEeqz-bDMEYH-afbayC-by358b-8dABt1-9cKGne


* Joanne Harris asks how much is a writer really worth?


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* 1950s style: dress me, don’t suppress me ...


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14 museums with stunning Instagram accounts


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A Seal of the Knights Templar. Image from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_Templar


A comedy podcast inspired by the history of the Knights Templar (yes really!)


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Cover Let Books Be Books


Publishing Perspectives ask: should UK children’s books be non gender-specific?


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Stranger than fiction … Ben Miles (Thomas Cromwell) and Lydia Leonard (Anne Boleyn) in the stage adaptation of Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall. Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian

  

* How true should historical fiction be? 


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Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games. Katniss Everdeen … The Hunger Games heroine is just one literary character that World Book Day hopes will challenge and inspire young readers. Photograph: Murray Close


* The best teen reads that will change your life
 
  

Which history and publishing stories have you enjoyed reading this week?


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