This week's update features the lost whaling station at the end of the world, fifty years of the Red Arrows and ten historical novels that will transport you back in time.
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* Who was the mysterious feminist seed dealer and marketing genius Miss Carrie H. Lippincott?
* From high society to sea voyages: a comic take on life in the 1880s.
* Submarines and sea battles: the menace under the sea.
* Why are there Viking ships on a Chinese note?
* An introduction to the thriving black community in eighteenth-century London.
* In respect of the dead: human remains in the British Museum.
* South Georgia: the lost whaling station at the end of the world.
* In pictures: fifty years of the Red Arrows.
* The blues pilgrimage on Highway 61.
* The BBC drama The Crimson Field has been axed as it 'did not attract sufficiently high audiences or critical praise to warrant a return'. Were you a fan of the First World War drama?
* The pilots who worked to thwart the Zeppelin threat at Hainault Farm aerodrome during the First World War.
* Murder your library and you lose much of yourself ...
* How true can crime fiction really be?
* Twelve literary insults to make you weep.
* How do you treat your books?
* Eleven inspiring quotes from the world's best writers.
* A tour of the new Foyles store from Julia Kingsford.
* Ten historical novels that will transport you back in time.
* Is Jeremy Paxman right about new poetry's inaccessibility?
* A rare statement from Amazon regarding the Hachette dispute whilst the cockeyed pessimist asks: who's afraid of Amazon?
Which history and publishing stories have you enjoyed reading this week?