This week's update features a poltergeist called Donald, the ten biggest misconceptions about the First World War and Phineas Gage, neuroscience’s most famous patient.
* The Royal family’s First World War commemoration events have been announced this week with all senior members of the Royal Family taking part in remembrance activities.
* Why is Canada botching the commemoration of the centenary of the First Word War?
* A statue of a Black Watch soldier has been unveiled at Ypres in Belgium to mark the centenary of the First World War. The statue honours the 8,960 Black Watch officers and soldiers killed and more than 20,000 who were wounded.
* The sinking of the Lusitania: medals used as war propaganda.
* The ten biggest misconceptions about the First World War.
* Tuesday 6 May marked sixty years since British athlete Roger Bannister became the first man to run a mile in under four minutes but eighteenth-century runners are reported to have got there first. Why are they not recognised?
* Gino Bartali: The cyclist who saved Jews in wartime Italy.
* 271 years before Pantone, an artist mixed and described every colour imaginable in an 800-page book.
* A Mozart manuscript which was smuggled out of Nazi Germany by a Jewish refugee will be auctioned in London by Sotheby's on 20 May, where it is expected to fetch somewhere between £300,000 and £500,000.
* The curious case of Phineas Gage, neuroscience’s most famous patient.
* The Natural History Museum's Central Hall is to be renamed following a £5 million donation from philanthropists Sir Michael and Lady Hintze, the biggest single donation the museum has received in its 133-year history.
* Five Titanic myths spread by films.
* Five places Richard III may have wanted to be buried (and none of them are Leicester).
* 'I was haunted by a poltergeist called Donald': one of the most terrifying, incredible and mysterious hauntings in British history.
* The curious notations in the margins of a 1504 copy of Homer's Odyssey have finally been interpreted.
* Nine 'don’ts' for publishers: the 2014 edition.
* How do you organise your home library? This proved to be a bit of a controversial question here in the office, but alphabetically by author seems to be the winner ...
* Thirteen essential lessons Little Women can teach you about living well.
* The nine best made-up languages from books.
* The fifteen best classics books of all time but which texts would you add to the list?
* Absurd Urban Dictionary definitions of famous authors.
* Will Self claims the novel is dead (this time it's for real) but do you agree?
* Bridging the gap: Baldur Bjarnason explains why publishing's future is at risk.
* Ten overlooked novels: how many have you read?
* Why is first person narrative so popular in detective novels?
Which history and publishing stories have you enjoyed reading this week?