This week's update features Napoleon's letter of surrender from Waterloo, the legacy of Magna Carta and the seven deadly sins.
* Napoleon's letter of surrender from Waterloo is to go on public view at Windsor Castle later this month.
* 'The Sicilian Uprising' of 12 January 1848 marked the start of 'a year of European revolutions'.
* 'Think only this': war poets witnessing a century of war at the British Library.
* Reframing First World War poetry.
* The poster campaign against the Imperial War Museum library cuts.
* Celebrating 100 years of Ladybird books.
* Heartbreaking images from the Holocaust.
* History's most powerful and poignant letters and diary entries.
* Why did my grandfather translate Mein Kampf?
*Attempts to rehabilitate ‘Bad’ King John always come up against a major stumbling block: the verdicts of his contemporaries.
* Bankers' bonuses, Roman style ...
* The Italian roots of the lottery.
* Robespierre and the 'Terror'.
* England's ghost signs: are old-fashioned painted adverts making a comeback?
* Birmingham: a city with no memory.
* The subliminal power of city fonts.
* Amazing photographs of beautiful theatres from around the world.
* Wolf Hall: a look at Thomas Cromwell on screen and behind the scenes of the BBC production.
* Tributes have been made to Sir Jack Hayward, who has died at the age of 91, for his role in rescuing the SS Great Britain.
* Five grisly unsolved English murders: from the skeleton of a woman in a hollowed-out tree to an unidentified torso in the River Severn.
* Thirty shocking photographs of child labour between 1908 and 1916.
* Fifty years of David Bowie's changing hairstyles in one mesmerising GIF.
* The questions librarians answered before the Internet.
* Illustrating history with the National Archives ...
* Women having a terrible time at parties in Western art history.
* Illustrator Amit Shimoni has re-imagined world leaders as hipsters and they're brilliant.
* The first episode of The Last Days of Troy, Simon Armitage's dramatisation of Homer's Iliad.
* The best non-fiction books about London to read in January.
* Literature's finest anti-heroines.
* Which is the worst of the seven deadly sins?
* Women and leadership in publishing.
* Cover story: what was your favourite book jacket of 2014?
* Twenty-one books to read before they hit the big screen in 2015.
* Stylist magazine share their best new book releases of 2015.
* Time have gathered together their 100 best young-adult books of all time, but what would you add to the list?
* Is Canelo really a new hope for the publishing industry?
* Five trade publishing predictions and the shape of things to come in 2015 for publishing.
* Amazon says it's 'healthy to give publishers and authors, choice but do you agree?
Which history and publishing stories have you enjoyed reading this week?