This week's update features global war, mistakes in medieval manuscripts and the age-old print/ebook debate.
* Was World War One really the first global war?
* Gavrilo Princip and the lie that started the First World War.
* The National Library of Scotland has digitised more than 130 trench maps covering the major battlegrounds across France and Belgium, allowing you to see how the Western Front evolved between 1915 and 1918.
* From mobile phones to air traffic control: seven surprising technologies from the First World War.
* How modern chemistry techniques can save ancient art.
* A fascinating look at Van Gogh's paintings brought to life.
* London's Tower Bridge, which turned 120 years old on 30 June, is one of the most iconic London landmarks. But, thanks to an open competition, many other designs were submitted for consideration before Horace Jones' submission was selected.
* According to a recent study by a Cambridge historican, Anne Boleyn was Henry VIII's most compatible wife, but do you agree?
* The Canvey Island flood disaster of 1953 has been remembered with a mural on the 262ft sea wall painted by professional artists and Canvey inhabitants.
* Where did Roman babies poop?
* Penelope Trunk asks: in this day and age, are museums now irrelevant?
* Medieval manuscripts and the beauty of mistakes.
* 'The dreaded sweat': the other medieval epidemic.
* Crime novelist Val McDermid has said she would not be able to build a career as a writer today, as publishers would not take the risk on her low-selling early books. Do you think that writing is getting harder to break into?
* ThrillWriting discusses what not to wear: clothing choices to save your heroine ...
* UK publishing pros ask: is publishing cool anymore?
* A halt has been called to the US World Book Night after the scheme failed to secure external funding.
* Author Tony Horwitz has caused outrage with his recent New York Times op-ed piece which claimed that despite being a 'digital bestseller', he actually lost money on his ebook and he is 'wary of this brave new world of digital publishers and readers' as a result.
Whilst many agreed with Horwitz's conclusions, other disagree, with websites such as The Ploughshares questioning whether going digital had anything to do with the problem.
* Publishing Perspectives ask: what does your brain like better, print or ebooks?
* Digital Book World shared an interesting interview with Lisa Gitelman on the written word in translation.
* As the Amazon/Hachette dispute rumbles on, Amazon has taken to the Wall Street Journal this week to defend itself.
Which history and publishing stories have you enjoyed reading this week?