This week's update features aggressive cannibalism, the objects bringing the Battle of Waterloo to life and an investigation into Amazon.
* Experience the battlefield at Waterloo with a game from the National Army Museum.
* Seven surprising facts about the Napoleonic Wars.
* Bringing the Battle of Waterloo back to life ...
* Beautiful stamps to commemmorate the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo.
* Thomas Highgate: the first British soldier executed during the First World War.
* The trains that saved soldiers in the First World War.
* The Second World War soldiers that France has forgotten.
* A video showing the shocking scale of losses in the Second World War.
* The fascinating stories of German POWs in Britain after the Second World War.
* Churchill's radio imposter? Solving the mystery of the British Prime Minister's wartime recordings.
* A Tube map of the London Underground that's far more useful than the 'official' one.
* Photographing Britain's disappearing petrol stations ...
* Eating your enemy: aggressive cannibalism in a war zone.
* The terrifying lesson my father taught me at the age of 10.
* The Inuit children taken from home for a social experiment.
* Watch newly discovered footage of Amelia Earhart, taken shortly before she disappeared.
* The traditional clothes of royal children ...
* Women in trousers: on the way to masculinity?
* The secret history of women's football.
* Why do people in Victorian photographs look so glum?
* The Great British stink: water and sanitation from Victorian Britain to the modern day. Find out more about the system of intercepting sewers, pumping stations and treatment works that cleaned up Victorian London here.
* The history of Henry Mancini's Moon River.
* Britain's brutalist playgrounds in pictures.
* A lore unto themselves: celebrating the merry souls who keep Britain's folkloric tradition alive.
* Britain has spoken – and chosen a vicious murdering bully as its national bird.
* Fifteen of the wittest, most perfect take downs in history.
* How to graciously say no to anyone ...
* The first trailer has been released for Suffragette, which stars Carey Mulligan and Meryl Streep, and deals with the early struggles of the women’s suffrage movement.
* Sir Christopher Lee, known as the master of horror, has died at the age of 93. You can read his obituary here and take a look at his career in pictures here.
* David Nicholls' Us is to be adapted for the BBC.
* Author Marian Keyes says 'chick lit' as a term needs to go, and she's so right.
* The tale of a true crime book's trip over the Atlantic.
* A new scope: books to revisit Star Wars from perspectives of key characters.
* A look back on Malorie Blackman's reign as children's laureate.
* Bonnie Greer resigns as Bronte Society president following 'internal feud'.
* Philip Pullman on the 'disaster' of piracy.
* Tributes have been paid this week to Marguerite Patten who has died at the age of 99.
