John Darrah obituary

Other lives: Expert theorist on the relationship between paganism and Arthurian legends

Nicolas McDowall obituary

Other lives: Founder with his wife, Frances, of the Old Stile Press

Poet who expressed female experience through dub and was a powerful performer of her own work

Novelist known for exploring the lives of women and their relationships who had a deep commitment to her native Wales

Foreign correspondent, human rights activist and author of acclaimed books on women and art

Bestselling author whose fascination with death and violence found expression in the Jack Caffery crime novels

Writer who invited the gods back into literature in an ambitious series retelling the great ancient myths

Novelist who brought out the humour in the everyday triumphs and failures of her heroines

Archaeologist involved all her life with Mycenae and an authority on the ancient Greek culture’s terracotta figurines

Other lives: Former fairground worker who married the actor John Le Mesurier and later ran a guest house in Spain

Comedian and quiz show host who was propelled to stardom by winning Opportunity Knocks

Journalist, author and historian who knew both President John F Kennedy and his alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald

Iconoclastic poet, editor and leading light of British counterculture during the 1950s and 60s

Journalist, historian and pro-European Labour MP who rebelled against his party’s whip to vote in favour of the Common Market

Other lives: Underground magazine editor and radical bookseller