This week's update features medieval kebabs, the forgotten IRA bomb in Coventry and the truth about Africans in Tudor England.
* Among the poppies: a fascinating look at volunteering at the Tower of London's war memorial.
* In the steps of my grandfather, a German soldier in France during the First World War.
* Arthur Conan Doyle's eerie vision of the future of war, published in July 1914, is surprisingly prescient.
* On 25 August 1939, five people died and seventy were injured when an IRA bomb exploded in Coventry city centre. 75 years after the explosion, the devastating attack has been all but forgotten, but why?
* The truth about Africans in Tudor England.
* How Sir John Dugdale Astley 'reinvented' walking on 18 March 1878.
* The long-held idea that Europeans were the first to bring tuberculosis to the Americas when they arrived in the fifteenth-century has been thrown into doubt. Scientists have suggested that it was seals that transported the disease, rather than humans.
* 'Big data' may be the term on everyone's lips but can computers ever really replace historians?
* Test your knowledge of British history with the quiz you can do in the car ...
* From medieval kebabs to pasties, here's 5 foods you (probably) didn’t know were being eaten in the Middle Ages
* Woto! Which old-fashioned words do you like saying?
* There's only a few days left to save with the Kindle summer sale, grab your bargain ebooks here!
* A look at the 1930s inspired Giffords Circus as it heads back out on annual tour.
* Celebrating the joy of craftsmanship and centuries-old techniques.
* How Richard Attenborough 'saved' the British film industry.
* New research has proved that the Vikings were not the first colonisers of the Faroes.
Which history and publishing stories have you enjoyed reading this week?