The Friday Digest 26/06/15

This week's update features unfinished art, a short history of Breton stripes and Marilyn Monroe as you have never seen her before. 

  

* The ten best fictional characters at Waterloo.

 

 

* Peter and Dan Snow answer ten key questions about the Battle of Waterloo.

 

* The Brontë sisters and the Battle of Waterloo.

 

* Has sentimental remembrance met its Waterloo?

 

* The American Civil War then and now.  

 

* Who was Stand Watie?

 

* An interactive map of the history of the Atlantic slave trade. 

 

* The First World War letter that revealed a brutal day at Scapa Flow. 

 

* How did the Turin Shroud get its image? 

 

* Unbound: the shocking images of China's last 'lotus feet'.

 

* Victoria and Albert: how a royal love changed culture.  

* 'Soldiers in petticoats': portraits of the suffragettes.

* The King John paradox.

* Stunning satellite images showing the human impact on Earth. 

* Ten words you didn't know were derived from 'father'. 

* A clock set into the concrete outside a Manhattan jeweller has been telling time underfoot for over a century.

 

* The treasure trove of rare images showing Marilyn Monroe as you've never seen her before. 

* A short history of breton stripes. 

 

* A Yorkshireman in Istanbul in 1593.

* The National Trust is asking the public to record the sounds of the UK seaside to create an audio archive.  

* Seeing red: postcards of Soviet-era architecture. 

* The UK is to adopt the Hague Convention, a major international agreement designed to protect cultural property during military conflict. 

* The mystery of the Staffordshire Hoard takes centre stage at theatre festival. 

* Why see an exhibition of unfinished art? 

* A new theory that the tallest stone at Stonehenge points towards the midsummer sunset has been observed to be correct, it has been claimed. 

* The story of the women in the Trafalgar Square fountains on VE Day. 

* Five famous women engineers. 

 

 

* A magical voyage of discovery, available only in bookshops ... 

 

* The top ten life lessons from books. 

* Fifty Shades of Grey: the series that tied publishing up in knots.  

 

* A survival guide for working in book publishing ... 

* Could publishing use a little mindfulness?  

 

* The iconic 1960s Coventry Chair has been redesigned as 'we recognise that people have got heavier'.  

* Amazon to pay Kindle authors only for pages read. 

* Do you agree that 'the national curriculum is damaging children's creative writing'? 

* 'Repugnant', 'uninspired' and 'awful' - the musical works hated by their composers.  

* Readers recommend: songs about books.