This week's update features the sinking of RMS Lusitania, Napoleon's last journey and the pre-war cars found in a Texas barn.
* RMS Lusitania was torpedoed by a German U-boat and sank in eighteen minutes. This eyewitness account of the sinking is heartbreaking and the civilian toll was extrememly high but who was to blame for the deaths of 1,201 people?
* Was the First World War U-boat a death trap?
* Thirteen things you didn't know about the history of British democracy.
* Nine general election curiosities through history.
* Every number one, ever, on polling day.
* Tracing the children of the Holocaust.
* Could a woman become a knight in medieval times?
* A review of Archery in medieval England.
* The Roman mosaics 'ruined' in a botched restoration in Turkey.
* Six things you (probably) didn’t know about Cleopatra.
* The Ten Commandments Dead Sea Scroll is to go on display for the first time in Israel.
* The Cerne Abbas chalk hill giant has been censored for a comic because some outlets had refused to release it.
* Mr Darcy and the sex scandal: the real-life aristocrat who inspired Jane Austen.
* The 'three queens' ships marked the start of Cunard's 175th anniversary celebrations.
* The yard for red phone boxes that ring no more.
* Archaeologists rebuild the 1608 church where Pocahontas was married.
* Five perfectly preserved pre-war cars worth $700k have been found inside a Texas barn.
* The story of Dior, now in comic-book form ...
* Something’s afoot: investigating the names for shoes.
* These dreamlike autochrome portraits from 1913 are among the earliest colour photographs.
* The New Yorker writer who didn't publish anything for thirty years.
* Ten times J.K. Rowling has inspired Harry Potter fans.
* Is Citizen Kane more than just a great movie?
* Copyright: it's a piece of cake, right?
* The book trade has paid tribute to the 'insightful' Ruth Rendell who died on Saturday 2 May.
* Macmillan partners with BitLit on ebook bundling but what are your thoughts?