This week's update features the dogs of the First World War, the ruins of Italy's Ionian coast and nine surprising facts about Anne Frank.
* Why is Australia so ashamed of its 'founder'?
* Mistresses through history: the term wasn’t always about secret sex ...
* Why we must remember the bloody cost of Waterloo.
* In pictures: dogs of the First World War.
* Discovering the ruins of Italy’s Ionian coast.
* BBC Four announces The Age Of Heroes: Ancient Greece Uncovered season.
* The Michelangelo letter which drew a ransom demand from the Vatican.
* The queen's maritime history.
* Did films reflect or shape gender roles in the Second World War?
* Nine surprising facts about Anne Frank.
* How did the Second World War change the way people dressed?
* An embarrassment of riches: the UK museums struggling with an excess of archaeological archives.
* The history of the engagement ring.
* Ten paintings with hidden meanings.
* Five photographs that (you didn’t know) changed everything.
* Twenty-three charming photos that prove the Victorian era had the best fashion.
* 'Salt and Silver', Tate Britain’s evocative exhibition of some of photography’s very earliest images.
* Why the Magic 8 Ball still holds our fascination ...
* Harper Lee's acerbic response to one journalist's letter sent to test her lucidity.
* Fay Weldon has misread 'non-literary' ebook readers.
* The strange things we learned from Ladybird Books.
* The unexpected health benefits of being an avid reader.
* Much loved author Sir Terry Pratchett has passed away at the age of 66.