Clare McPhee obituary

Other lives: Poet, playwright and teacher whose work focused on the natural world of her surroundings in Cumbria and Cambridgeshire

Lyn Macdonald obituary

Journalist and author who chronicled the stories of veterans from the first world war in books such as They Called It Passchendaele

Other lives: Crown green bowler who was also an authority on folk football games

Other lives: Poet, translator and teacher of English, French and Japanese

Other lives: Teacher of literature who was instrumental in the creation of what became the New Left Review

Scholar of the Labour party, its constituent trade unions and how they voted at the annual conference

Children’s writer who drew on her experience of growing up in Portland, Oregon, for her Ramona books

Poet and leading voice of Poland’s Generation of ’68, who wrote ‘to understand the world’

American novelist who wrote Terms of Endearment, Lonesome Dove and the screenplay for Brokeback Mountain

Other lives: Wood engraver, illustrator and print maker whose work was characterised by an irreverent sense of humour

Historian who re-introduced the subject of religion into his studies of the British empire

Historian who made her name with biographies of leading figures in Stuart Britain

Other lives: Author and Labour party member who overcame her lack of schooling, learning English, Gujarati and Hindi

Other lives: Librarian who created a database that was a precursor for the NHS Direct service for patients

Prolific scholar of the art and architecture of the Byzantine empire