The Friday Digest 09/01/15

Happy new year from The History Press! This week's update features the beautiful and mysterious Lady of Elche, the 'unkillable soldier' who fought in three major conflicts and some 2015 digital publishing predictions. 

* 2014: the year in archaeology.  

* The remains of Herod's Palace, the site of Jesus' trial, has been discovered near the Tower of David in Jerusalem.

* Six sites that help us better understand Roman entertainment.

* The sudden death of the wife of Oscar Wilde at the tender age of 40 has long been a mystery but private family letters have unearthed medical evidence which point towards the likely cause of her death. 

* The beautiful and mysterious Lady of Elche.

* Over 5,000 medieval coins were discovered on a farm in Buckinghamshire last month, thought to be one of the largest hoards of Anglo Saxon coins ever found in Britain. 

 * If you knew you were unexpectedly leaving your home for the very last time, what would you take with you?

* Adrian Carton de Wiart: the unkillable, one-eyed, one-handed war hero who fought in three major conflicts across six decades. 

* D-Day veteran 'escapee' Bernard Jordan has died at the age of 90. 

* The evacuated children of the Second World War. 

* The King at 80: why America couldn't let Elvis go ... 

* Your life on Earth: how you and the world have changed since you were born. 

* We can't all be pandas! Meet the world's ugliest endangered animals and the campaign to save them ... 

* Famous self-portrait paintings turned into selfies. 

* Sixteen gorgeous locations from Pride And Prejudice that you can actually visit. 

* Which literary heroine are you?

* Which classic book would be perfect for you?  

* 'I love books so why do I hate studying English GCSE?' 

* Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has set up a book club on the social networking site, which attracted more than 120,000 likes in three days.

* Kate Saunders's son Felix committed suicide in 2012. A year later she began to write Five Children on the Western Front, a children's book about the First World War.

* Do you agree with Philip Jones that ebooks are champions of the printed word?  

* Your 2015 digital publishing predictions and questions for Seth Godin and Mary Ann Naples. 

* World Book Day launches inaugural award with £50,000 donation from bestselling author James Patterson.

* A ranking of the best literary moments of 2014.

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