The Friday Digest 19/09/14

This week's update features pin-up girls, retro sweet recipes and Shakespeare's plays in their original English accent.

* A fantastic article from Jessica Meyer on being a woman and a war historian.

* From tea dresses to trousers: a look at fashion for women in the First World War.

* Kitchener and the truth behind the most famous pointing finger in history ...

* The UK was home to 250,000 Belgian refugees during the First World War, so how and why did they vanish without a trace?

* A typical day in the life of Linda Stratmann, the bestselling Mystery Press author. 

* Crime Fiction Lover has shared their twenty greatest classic crime movies of all time but which others would you add to this list?

* Why today’s most exciting crime novelists are women.

* Pin-up girls through history - in pictures ... 

* Amazing history pictures: Hitler in disguise.   

* Wartime records have revealed the secret 'Agent Fifi' test for spies.

* 'I never lost hope': a startling interview with the woman featured in the iconic Great Depression image talking just five years before her death in 1983.   

* Richard III was killed by skull and pelvis injuries – but mysteries still remain about his death.

* Washing with mercury and urine: how to be a Georgian Court beauty ... 

* Stylist magazine share the most fashionable characters in literature.  

* As Scotland voted no in the Scottish referendum, see how the newspapers reported the historic vote here.

* 'I loved/loathed my 1960s high-rise block'.

* Parents – are you bad or just misguided? 

* The remains of a man and a woman who had been buried holding hands have been uncovered at the Chapel of St Morrell, an ancient pilgrimage site in Hallaton.

* Why Latin and Greek are still so relevant to us all.  

 * Astonishing portraits of the first black people ever photographed in Britain.

* Bake your own retro sweets with these brilliant recipes - anyone fancy making some curly wurlys? 

* A look at some of the curiosities, follies and oddities of Yorkshire. 

* Here’s what Shakespeare’s plays sounded like with their original English accent.

* It's sixty years since Lord of the Flies was first published and the book still hold true all this time later. 

* How do you promote museums to young people?

* The books with (almost) identical covers ...

  Which history and publishing stories have you enjoyed reading this week?