This week's update features five hundred new fairytales, an unexploded 110lb Second World War bomb and eighteen charming British villages you must see before you die ...
* Why is Elizabeth I, the most powerful woman in our history, always depicted as a grotesque?
* Ten things you (probably) didn’t know about the Spanish Armada ...
* Eight surprising facts about the Woodville family.
* Why do television writers fawn over royalty?
* Twenty great Manchester women are on a shortlist to be immortalised as a city centre statue but who will you vote for?
* Eighteen charming British villages you must see before you die ...
* An unexploded 110lb Second World War bomb found near Wembley Stadium by builders was described as 'a genuine risk to life' by the army. It has now been detonated safely by the army at a secret location.
* Stunning images of the ancient city of Palmyra before its capture by Islamic State.
* How far did Frodo and Sam actually walk?
* The fugitive who hid in plain sight along the Appalachian trail.
* Beautiful Mind mathematician John Nash was killed in a car crash this week.
* A piece of Mozart's hair up for auction at Sotheby's is expected to fetch £10,000.
* Wellington and the night before the Battle of Waterloo.
* A stuffed steed, the skull of Wellington's bravest soldier and Napoleon's breakfast plate – extraordinary objects from the Battle of Waterloo.
* 'I spent most of my life as a nobody': the last of the silent movie stars.
* A ranking of the best movie sets ever built.
* Are the arts the new frontier for freedom of speech?
* Amazing images reveal historic moments captured by cameras.
* Prints from Marilyn Monroe's poignant final photoshoot are to be auctioned off in London.
* Forget Richard III, we might have buried another king under a car park ...
* Secret Regency snogs: a guide to furtive love (and other naughty bits) in Jane Austen.
* Margaret Atwood has become the first of 100 authors to submit work to a project called the 'Future Library'. The project will see one work of fiction from a different writer being added to a collection each year, until they are all published in 2114.
* Which book would you give to a woman you love?
* What's in a name? The power of the anonymous author.
* Twenty-nine breathtaking tattoos inspired by books.
* The most beautiful lines ever written ...
* Penguin Random House are said to be in a contract dispute with Amazon.
* Amazon is changing the way it records sales in a move that could see it paying more tax.