This week's update features 'tales from the India office', the history of the swastika and a giant poppy.
* One of the few black soldiers from Glasgow who fought in the First World War has been immortalised in a new book after his lost diaries were found in an attic in Glasgow.
* A look at the fifteen British soldiers from the First World War being reburied 100 years on.
* The Welshman shot for desertion in the First World War.
* How the First World War changed aviation forever.
* Giant poppy made by 1,400 GCHQ intelligence agency staff to commemorate Remembrance day.
* How the world loved the swastika – until Hitler stole it.
* The secrets of the agents trained to blow up the city of Plymouth.
* ‘For the sake of freedom’: British Second World War propaganda posters in Arabic.
* Tales from the India Office.
* The forgotten women of the 'war in the East'.
* Abram Games: posters that framed the nation.
* As the 150-year anniversary of the UK's first modern sewer system approaches, WaterAid are inviting communities to get involved in their Big History Project to help piece together the history of taps and toilets across the country.
* Is this how London will look in the future?
* A number of old images of the University of Warwick are revealed as the 50th anniversary approaches.
* Ben Bradlee, legendary Washington Post editor, has died at the age of 93.
* The love of all things creepy – how women were the early Goths.
* The appeal of the historical murder mystery.
* Waterstones to hold 'sleepover' this evening following tourist lock-in.
* Twelve books Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos thinks everyone should read.
* Is Jean-Paul Sartre really more relevant now than ever?
* The five best writers' sheds – in pictures.
* Riddle me this: Harry Potter and literature’s most fiendish head-scratchers.
* Watch children’s illustrators in action!
* Can't get into highbrow novels? 'Ditch them', says Nick Hornby.
* The joys of judging the Man Booker prize.
* How soon will the majority of books be self-published?
* The dos and don’ts of writing a blurb for your novel.
Which history and publishing stories have you enjoyed reading this week?