This week's update features the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, Tudor gluttony and Churchill's funeral.
* 27 January marked Holocaust Memorial Day and the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. A short history of Auschwitz , the largest mass murder site in human history.
* Survivors sit for beautiful portraits to commemorate the anniversary.
* The Guardian's view on the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
* On the 70th anniversary, Auschwitz survivors warn of new crimes.
* 'I thought anti-Semitism would be a thing of the past. Naïve really' ...
* Dr Josef Mengele and the twins of Auschwitz.
* Franciszek Jaźwiecki and Auschwitz's forbidden art.
* The Scots Guards remember Waterloo in 1958, 143 years after Napoleon was defeated.
* Legend has it that crown jewels, gold and money were lost in the medieval mud of the fens in 1216. Now clues about the disappearance of 'King John's treasure' have been unearthed in a 'game changing' archaeological survey, according to historian and archaeologist Ben Robinson.
* Simon de Montfort and the turning point for democracy that gets overlooked.
* Rediscovered: the forgotten canal built in Dorset 180 years ago to transport clay to Poole harbour.
* Do 'bite-sized' history textbooks 'dumb down' the subject?
* Deafness, 'visible speech' and Alexander Graham Bell.
* Ten women who 'became men' to get ahead.
* The post-war office buildings added to the National Heritage List for England.
* Teenage dreams: quiffs, kisses and the cults of youth in pictures.
* Cromwell the fixers’ fixer: a role model for our times.
* Henry VIII's diet: lobster, porpoise and custard (on fast days).
* ‘What did a Tudor coffin look like?’: the weird and wonderful world of a Wolf Hall adviser.
* The fascinating life of Winston Churchill.
* Winston Churchill's funeral – in pictures.
* ‘We nearly dropped Churchill’s coffin.’
* Why Gone Girl, why not Gone Woman?
* What’s in a name? How to christen a literary character.
* From Gatsby to Darcy: the top 10 liars in fiction.
* H is for Hawk wins Costa Book of the Year 2014.
* Thirty-three creative bookshelf designs.
* Fifteen inspiring quotes by writers we lost in 2014.
* Three thousand reasons to choose your reading carefully ...
* There has been an outpouring of support in the trade for Robert Harris's public call for a dedicated BBC TV books programme. Harris has claimed that there’s plenty the corporation could do to make a popular literary programme on TV but do you agree?
Which history and publishing stories have you enjoyed reading this week?