This week's update features the peculiar history of cows, the bonfire of papers at the end of Empire and Amazon's twentieth birthday.
* Why was Orkney the perfect naval base in the First World War?
* Do you agree that the aristocracy suffered as much as the lower classes during the First World War?
* Spend a night at the cinema in 1914 with the British Film Institute.
* The Imperial War Museum has reopened ahead of the centenary commemorations with 'death and destruction all around'.
* Life on the eve of war ...
* The Germans resist a heroic view of war – if only we could ...
* Fortunino's Fortunes - the twenty-first century revival of war artist, Matania.
* Is it guns for boys, gender for girls in the First World War classroom?
* How does it feel? Understanding the emotional lives of people in the past.
* Does crime writing have a misogynistic heart?
* How the Commonwealth has captured the imagination of film-makers over the decades.
Which history and publishing stories have you enjoyed reading this week?