Mike George obituary Writer and campaigner on social justice and the environment who developed the understanding of consumer vulnerability
Jean Kenward obituary Other lives: Poet and children’s author, and the creator of Ragdolly Anna, whose adventures were dramatised for television in the 1980s
Peter Scupham obituary Poet and teacher whose work embraced a wide range from sinuously tender love poems to sharp literary parodies
AB Yehoshua obituary Acclaimed Israeli writer who was a leading member of the activist group Peace Now
Stephen Thompson obituary Screenwriter and novelist who won a Bafta for his BBC drama, Sitting in Limbo, about his brother’s experiences of being threatened with deportation
Liza Picard obituary Social historian of London keen to explore the practical details of how people lived in centuries past
Paul Ginsborg obituary Historian, author and leftwing activist who was professor of contemporary European history at the University of Florence
John Burton obituary Conservationist whose creative thinking saved 770,000 acres of threatened habitat from damaging development
Caroline Compton obituary Other lives: Resident of Hampstead who contributed to a book of memoirs about her life in the north London suburb
George Pérez obituary Prolific and meticulous comic book artist whose many popular characters included Wonder Woman and Teen Titans
Dervla Murphy obituary Travel writer who famously journeyed alone from her native Ireland to India on a bicycle, armed with a pistol and a compass
Denis Meikle obituary Other lives: Film historian and co-founder of Hemlock Books, specialising in film, horror, mystery and the macabre
Barbara van der Zee obituary Other lives: Journalist and writer who focused on nutrition and herbal medicine
Ann Buchanan obituary Academic and social worker who was less interested in theories than in practical solutions