This week's update features a ninety-nine-year-old biscuit, a 60-second guide to the birth of football and a day in the life of a community archaeologist.
* The codebreakers' huts at Bletchley Park were structures that were only designed to last for a few years. So how have these ramshackle huts been given a new lease of life, seventy-five years on?
* This week, the Duchess of Cambridge reopened a codebreaking centre at Bletchley Park, where her grandmother once worked during the Second World War as part of the restoration project.
* Some First World War army ration biscuits that were brought home ninety-nine years ago by a Gallipoli survivor have been put up for auction. Soldier L. B Charles, who fought at Gallipoli and at the Dardanelles in Turkey, brought the biscuits home with him and the biscuits are still edible today although probably not all that appetising.
* How the First World War changed emergency medicine.
* The old bar of soap that has helped to shed light on Fife's First World War history.
* Busting the Anzac myth: has a national obsession hijacked the centenary commemorations of the First World War?
* Reading the First World War from the soldiers'-eye view to the grand sweep of history.
* Sunday, 15 June marked the 799th anniversary of Magna Carta and David Cameron took the opportunity to order that every school pupil be taught the ‘British values’ enshrined in Magna Carta. But the values of the charter, especially the idea of freedom under the law, cannot be claimed as a solely British value.
* The government's idea of a unified British history has also caused criticism, with people claiming that it is meaningless because 'our history is the struggle of many different Britains, each with their own conflicting sets of values'. Do you agree?
* Football fans around the world have been looking to Brazil for the World Cup but for those less familiar with 'the beautiful game', here's a 60-second guide to the birth of football as we know it.
* Despite being the most successful national coach in the history of football – an accolade bestowed by the Guinness Book of Records – George Raynor is one of the least well known within Great Britain but is Raynor the greatest coach that England never had?
* Gendered images? A history of working-class marriage.
* The design of the tomb that King Richard III will be reburied in at Leicester Cathedral has been unveiled. It has gone through a number of changes but the cathedral said it was 'deeply respectful.'
* Historical Honey share a day in the life of Annie Partridge, a community archaeologist working for Canterbury Archaeological Trust.
* A 300-year-old tapestry, which has hung in the University of Sheffield for half a century, has been returned to the Chateau de Versainville in Normandy after revelations it had been looted by the Nazis.
Which history and publishing stories have you enjoyed reading this week?