Andy Ward obituary

Other lives: Author of books on sports and higher education, including a narrative account of the Hillsborough disaster

Zulfikar Ghose obituary

Other lives: Poet, novelist and literary critic who was also a university lecturer in creative writing

Journalist and author of the Manon Bradshaw crime novel series with an intuitive understanding of the dynamics between people

Thriller writer and publisher who became an authority on the American old west and Billy the Kid

Pioneer of Modern Greek studies in British universities fascinated by questions of language and identity

Frank, warm and funny podcaster and campaigner who raised millions for bowel cancer charities

Historian and security strategist who was aware of the elusiveness of a relationship of trust with a nuclear power such as the Soviet Union

Writer and campaigner on social justice and the environment who developed the understanding of consumer vulnerability

Other lives: Poet and children’s author, and the creator of Ragdolly Anna, whose adventures were dramatised for television in the 1980s

Poet and teacher whose work embraced a wide range from sinuously tender love poems to sharp literary parodies

Acclaimed Israeli writer who was a leading member of the activist group Peace Now

Screenwriter and novelist who won a Bafta for his BBC drama, Sitting in Limbo, about his brother’s experiences of being threatened with deportation

Historian, author and leftwing activist who was professor of contemporary European history at the University of Florence

Conservationist whose creative thinking saved 770,000 acres of threatened habitat from damaging development