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The Friday Digest 02/05/14

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This week's update features commemoration controversy, Cinecittà and the oldest FBI agent.


 Red letter: colourful planting helps soften the headstones at Tyne Cot cemetery in Ypres, Belgium. The First World War memorial receives up to 700,000 visitors a year, posing significant challenges for maintenance staff Photo: Alamy


 

* A fascinating look at the army of devoted gardeners who keep the memory of sacrifice alive in rigorously maintained war cemeteries around the globe. 


New Zealand soldiers encampment at Anzac Cove in 1915

 

History and 'betrayal': the Anzac controversy. Alistair Thompson uncovers a hidden controversy about myth making and Gallipoli.



* The First World War as a publishing phenomenon, after 100 years, why are we still in the grip of the Great War?


Schoolchildren plant poppy seeds at home of British Prime Minister to remember First World War

  

* School children have planted poppy seeds at the home of the British Prime Minister to remember the First World War.


The Crimson Field


* Calm down, dear, it’s only a drama! Jessica Meyer shares her thoughts on the BBC's The Crimson Field. 


Lusitania


* Files show confusion over the Lusitania sinking account, one of the most controversial incidents of the First World War.  


Artists Rifles: there was a time when the artist was not 'contemptuous of any whiff of patriotism'


* When artists fought for queen and country.


Harper Lee in 2007. Photograph: Rob Carr/AP


*  Upon her eighty-eighth birthday, Harper Lee has agreed to an ebook version of To Kill a Mockingbird, the first time the book has been available digitally.   


Misty – well known 1978 dark female comic book of supernatural and horror stories

 

* Historical comic books in pictures


Scottish Independence: the great debate

 

* Scottish independence: is the debate just a question of the economy? 


Hampton Court Palace, the great gatehouse.

 

* London Pass blog have created some stunning infographics looking at the history of top landmarks and monuments in and around London.


  An illustration of the crew of the HMS Bounty casting off Captain William Bligh and his loyal supporters. Getty Images

 

* On 28 April 1789, the men of the crew of the HMS Bounty launched a mutiny against Captain William Bligh three weeks after sailing from Tahiti. But what happened next?

 

The dead body of Mussolini (second from left) next to Petacci (middle) and other executed fascists in Piazzale Loreto, Milan, 1945

 

* Poet Franco Loi recalls witnessing the dramatic day that Mussolini was strung up in a Milan piazza.


* A new law in Israel means kindergarten children will be taught about the Nazi genocide for the first time, but how young is too young to learn about the Holocaust? 

 

Titanic


* From the sinking of the Titanic to the horrors of the Second World War, history is being brought to life on Twitter in real time.

 

Van Dyck's self-portrait


* The National Portrait Gallery has successfully raised the £10 million required to keep Sir Anthony Van Dyck's final self-portrait in the country.

File:Auguste Rodin, 1881-ca.1899, Éve, bronze, Jardin des Tuilleries, Paris. DSC09221.jpg


* Leading sculptor Auguste Rodin is being celebrated ina London exhibition of thirty of his bronzes, including some of his most-loved works.


One of these early images depicts a young man wearing a tunic and sporting curly hair, a picture archaeologists say may be of Jesus. (University of Barcelona)

 


* 'One of the earliest images of Jesus' has been unearthed in an Egyptian tomb


How to eat in a restaurant: dating tips from the 1950s

 

* How to eat in a restaurant and other dating tips from the 1950s


Tapestry portraits of John Paul II (L) and Pope John XXIII and are seen in St Peter's Square at the Vatican April 27


* History was made on Sunday as the Vatican declared Popes John Paul II and John XXIII as saints. But of all the Catholic traditions, is canonisation the most nonsensical?


Remains of a set design, backstage at Cinecittà, Rome. Luca Locatelli


* Cinecittà, the famous movie studio that’s now a graveyard of film memories.


Walter R. Walsh in 1939 Courtesy of American Rifleman Magazine


* The amazing life of Walter R. Walsh. The world-class marksman who shot clothespins off laundry lines as a boy and went on to become an F.B.I. legend in shootouts with gangsters in the 1930s, an Olympic competitor and a trainer of generations of Marine Corps sharpshooters.


 

* The medals of Ronald Berry, Hull-born Spitfire pilot, have sold for £120,000

Horse sculpture in Tewkesbury

 

* Two giant horse sculptures have been erected to commemorate the Battle of Tewkesbury in 1471. Standing at 16ft, the title of the piece - 'Arrivall' - is taken from the 1471 account of the recovery of Henry VI's English throne by Edward IV.


Felixstowe Bath Hotel suffragette arson commemorated

 

* The 100th anniversary of the burning down of the former Bath Hotel in Felixstowe has been commemorated with the unveiling of a blue plaque.

 

Koktobel

 

* Why does the Crimea region hold such a huge significance in the Russian psyche?


Rocky Horror Picture Show cast

 

* The strange time warp of the 1970s.

 

The Weald & Downland Museum has several me Organic approach: the Weald & Downland Museum has several medieval gardens Photo: Alamydieval gardens 

 

* Weeds and wisdom in the Middle Ages: many plants that we call weeds today were essential food in medieval times and they can still offer important benefits.


Must-sea: Shae Williams re-reads one of his favourite books (Picture: Masons)


* Shae Williams, a history-mad schoolboy from Norwich has turned his bedroom into an Admiral Nelson museum.


Emilia Clarke


* 15 differences from text to TV in Game Of Thrones.


Greg Wise and Kate Winslet in a scene from Ang Lee's 1995 film Sense and Sensibility

 

* The genre debate: is 'literary fiction' just clever marketing? 


Literary or historical? … Great Expectations Photograph: Todd Antony/BBC


* The genre debate: why don't we think of Dickens as a historical novelist? 


Book shelf. Image from http://www.flickr.com/photos/39136843@N05/3709418364/


* The book world keeps changing, so Digital Book World has to change too.

* Actor Stephen Fry has been announced as the new Hay Festival president.  

* Why publisher Mills & Boon is romancing the mobile app

* Foyles has unveiled further details of the fixtures for its flagship store, including an atrium and glass event space. The store will be located at 107 Charing Cross Road.

* Amazon’s UK boss Christopher North has defended the online retailer’s tax arrangements and warned it could not offer customers 120 million different products if its European headquarters was not based in Luxembourg, but what are your thoughts?

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


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