This week's update features the reinternment of Richard III, the secret Second World War pact with the devil and eleven female inventors who helped power the 'Information Age'.
* 'The dust of kings' and the questions raised by exhuming dead monarchs, meanwhile a search for the bones of Henry I is planned in Reading for later this year.
* The service to mark the reburial of King Richard III took place at Leicester Cathedral yesterday with the Archbishop of Canterbury, The Most Rev Justin Welby, presiding over the service with local senior clergy and representatives of world faiths.
* Putting Richard III on trial.
* Nine reasons why GQ would probably have been Richard III's friend ...
* Six myths about Richard III – the supposed murderer and usurper who wanted to marry his niece.
* Dormice, ostrich meat and fresh fish: the surprising foods eaten by people in ancient Rome.
* Roman roads – the phenomenon that held a world empire together.
* Defining beauty: the body in ancient Greek art.
* The story of the First World War by those who lived through it.
* Ruins found in a remote section of the Argentinian jungle 'may be secret Nazi hideout'.
* The Second World War pact with the Devil ...
* What would have happened if Napoleon Bonaparte had won the Battle of Waterloo?
* Magna Carta: a manuscript for all seasons.
* Eleven female inventors who helped power the 'Information Age'.
* A revisionist history of Indiana Women’s Prison.
* Was James Bond the result of Ian Fleming's midlife crisis?
* The best insults from famous writers ...
* Johann Weyer: the founder of modern psychiatry.
* A secret history of African decolonisation.
* Elizabeth I, from troubled child to beloved Queen.
* Who decides what culture is?
* Should museums ban selfie sticks?
* What seventeen adults learned from rereading their favourite childhood books.