This week's update features the Gallipoli centenary, Armenian rugs and the best images from the Hubble telescope.
* The Armenian rugs that tell two incredible stories.
* Second Battle of Ypres: Did the use of poison gas pave way for the Holocaust?
* Christianity’s rocky relationship with sex.
* Elizabeth I’s love life has long been the subject of great speculation, but was she really a ‘Virgin Queen’?
* What does this forgotten portrait tell us about Elizabeth I?
* What happened to the four girls appointed ladies-in-waiting to Mary, Queen of Scots?
* Nine weird medieval medicines.
* Shock as historic pub is demolished without permission.
* HMS Hood was one of the fastest and most powerful warships in the world when she entered service in 1920, so why did she sink so quickly in 1941?
* In remembrance of the Gallipoli landings centenary, The Guardian have released a teaching resource from the GNM Archive.
* An Australian museum has acquired a rare diary written on board a transport ship lying off Anzac Cove.
* The First World War scientists who gave their lives to defeat poison gas.
* The officer who refused to lie about being black.
* Holocaust documentary whose horrors remained unseen reaches cinemas – after seventy years.
* Second World War heroes ‘had most sex appeal’.
* These are ten of the worst mistakes in history.
* Why Victorian ephemera is so collectible.
* As the Hubble space telescope gets ready to celebrate twenty-five years since its launch, look back at some of the best images from the space telescope.
* Stored in jars and on slides, take a look at the strange afterlife of Einstein's brain.
* The Economist discusses religious archaeology.
* Who was buried at Sutton Hoo?
* Conservation of a clove boat.
* Ten things Poldark fans need to know about the American War of Independence.
* London’s lost streets: brothels, taverns, and Dick Whittington.
* Adventures in Historyland: Waterloo Men.
* The Human Journey: Migration routes.
* A woman who sees sound and hears colour depicts famous pop songs in stunning paintings.
* Thirty vintage travel ads from the Mad Men era.
* The 20,000 fake phone numbers used on film and television.
* Norway is to end FM radio broadcasts in 2017.
* How dystopia hammers home the reality of climate change.
* Which movie classics can you not abide?
* Why we shouldn’t let reality rein in our imagination.
* An author reveals the eleven things she wished she'd known about full-time writing when she first started, and her advice about writing part-time.
* Julian Walker on 'Don't get the breeze up'.
* How to make the article you're writing stand out.
* Caitlin Moran's latest column: 'What have they done to my library?'
* Nielsen Bookinsights Conference 2015.