This week's update features the Magna Carta and Waterloo anniversaries, a history of the world in funny puns and how to knit your own Clanger.
* Magna Carta: the competing forces that cry out for a constitutional convention.
* Is 15 June 1215 the correct date for Magna Carta?
* Where does the term 'Magna Carta' come from?
* Six Magna Carta myths explained.
* Magna Carta 'changed the world', David Cameron tells anniversary event, but do you agree?
* Lady De Lancey: the abridged story of Waterloo.
* Wellington and the Battle of Waterloo.
* Waterloo lives: in their own words ...
* The dentures made from the teeth of dead soldiers at Waterloo.
* Beautiful dresses worn at the Duchess of Richmond’s ball.
* Napoleon’s dream died at Waterloo – and so did that of British democrats, do you agree?
* Medieval women: what was life like for a housewife in the Middle Ages?
* An interactive map of the Salem witch trials pinpoints the spread and the source of the hysteria.
* A history of the world in funny puns ...
* The dinosaurs in the new Jurassic World film have divided the palaeontology world, but why?
* Has India's contribution to the Second World War been ignored?
* Love and War in the WRNS, a fresh view of the Second World War, as told through letters.
* How two men survived a prison where 12,000 were killed.
* Drawing what our mouths cannot say.
* The stunning drone photos that will change how you see the world.
* Nine enchanting East Yorkshire fairytales, from frog princes to wicked witches.
* Seventeen expressions from other countries that Britain needs to start using right away ...
* The lasting power of oral traditions.
* The difficult relationship of Queen Elizabeth II and Margaret Thatcher.
* Bloomsbury’s Bill Swainson, Souvenir Press m.d. Ernest Hecht, Nature Publishing Group's Dr Philip Campbell and Paddington creator Michael Bond are among the book industry figures named in the 2015 Queen’s Birthday Honours.
* A book believed to be the first one printed in the US has sold for a record $14.2 million at auction.
* An alternative summer reading list.
* What inspired that excruciating 'walk of shame' scene in Game of Thrones?
* A live read-through of Grey: Fifty Shades of Grey as told by Christian.