This week's update features Alan Turing's lost notes, the sequel to To Kill A Mockingbird and shopping under the Iron Curtain.
* How deadly was the poison gas of the First World War?
* Historians have been debating charges at the Imperial War Museum (IWM) after it confirmed library cutbacks this week.
* Four forgotten elements of the battle of Waterloo.
* Hijacked by Black September: Sabena Flight 571.
* Fifteen of the strangest things to ever go up for auction.
* Vogue staff pick the most fashionable film wardrobes
* Every 'Best Actress' Oscars dress since 1929.
* Are we now living in the future predicted by classic science fiction authors?
* The eleven speeches from the last two centuries that changed the world.
* The 650-year drought which triggered the abandonment of an ancient city.
* Been and gone: The woman who swam with sharks, and the man who booked The Beatles.
* The railway lines alarmingly close to the sea ...
* The Army is setting up a new force modelled on the Chindits of Burma to use Facebook and Twitter in psychological warfare. Listen to author, Tony Redding, discuss the history of the Chindits on BBC Radio 4 here.
* A brief history of politicians and awkward photos ...
* Thirteen images of what it was like to shop under the Iron Curtain.
* The paper cut-out models representing brutalist architecture of London from the 1960s and 1970s.
* Elizabeth I in TV and film, from Bernhardt to Blanchett ...
* Wolf Hall is wrong: Thomas More was a funny, feminist Renaissance man.
* Did Thomas Cromwell ever live in Wolf Hall?
* A secret Turing notebook could fetch up to $1 million at auction.
* Alan Turing's lost notes have been discovered as crumpled insulation in Hut 6 at Bletchley Park.
* On February 13, Dresden will commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Allied air raid that reduced the city to rubble. Ever since the fires went out, the bombing has served as a propaganda tool for Nazis, Communists and the modern far right and critics fear that the planned ceremonies will serve as a rallying point for the far right.
* A recently discovered novel by Harper Lee, featuring characters from To Kill A Mockingbird, is to be published this summer. Go Set a Watchman was written by Lee in the mid-1950s, before she wrote To Kill a Mockingbird, and features that book's narrator, Scout, as an adult.
* Despite criticisms from some quarters, Harper Lee is thrilled by the response to the announcement saying, 'I’m alive and kicking and happy as hell with the reactions to Watchman.'
* Harper Lee's Go Set a Watchman, and the sadness of a sequel.
* How are fictional characters reacting to Scout's return?
* Five books that took decades to get published.
* Ten of the biggest sequels from famous authors.
* The cult books that everyone should read ...
* According to a new survey, reading for pleasure boosts self-esteem.
* Can you guess these classic first lines of novels?
* The publishing industry has adopted digital with varying degrees of both enthusiasm and success but there may be continuing adaptation ahead ...
Which history and publishing stories have you enjoyed reading this week?