This week's update features commemoration controversy, Cinecittà and the oldest FBI agent.
* A fascinating look at the army of devoted gardeners who keep the memory of sacrifice alive in rigorously maintained war cemeteries around the globe.
* 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?
* School children have planted poppy seeds at the home of the British Prime Minister to remember the First World War.
* Calm down, dear, it’s only a drama! Jessica Meyer shares her thoughts on the BBC's The Crimson Field.
* Files show confusion over the Lusitania sinking account, one of the most controversial incidents of the First World War.
* When artists fought for queen and country.
* 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.
* Historical comic books in pictures.
* Scottish independence: is the debate just a question of the economy?
* London Pass blog have created some stunning infographics looking at the history of top landmarks and monuments in and around London.
* 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?
* 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?
* 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.
* The National Portrait Gallery has successfully raised the £10 million required to keep Sir Anthony Van Dyck's final self-portrait in the country.
* Leading sculptor Auguste Rodin is being celebrated ina London exhibition of thirty of his bronzes, including some of his most-loved works.
* 'One of the earliest images of Jesus' has been unearthed in an Egyptian tomb.
* How to eat in a restaurant and other dating tips from the 1950s.
* 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?
* Cinecittà, the famous movie studio that’s now a graveyard of film memories.
* 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 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.
* 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.
* The 100th anniversary of the burning down of the former Bath Hotel in Felixstowe has been commemorated with the unveiling of a blue plaque.
* Why does the Crimea region hold such a huge significance in the Russian psyche?
* The strange time warp of the 1970s.
* 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.
* Shae Williams, a history-mad schoolboy from Norwich has turned his bedroom into an Admiral Nelson museum.
* 15 differences from text to TV in Game Of Thrones.
* The genre debate: is 'literary fiction' just clever marketing?
* The genre debate: why don't we think of Dickens as a historical novelist?
* 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?