Iona McGregor obituary

Other lives: Author and teacher who was a pioneering gay rights activist in the 1970s

Cate Haste obituary

Historian, biographer and documentary film-maker whose subjects ranged from the cold war to sexual freedom in Britain

Composer celebrated for completing Elgar’s Third Symphony but whose own voice was more modernist in style

Other Lives: Screenwriter and filmmaker who was associated for many years with the King’s Head pub theatre in London

Composer whose settings of texts in English display dramatic flair, poetic awareness and assured piano writing

Lib Dem activist, writer and lecturer whose international outlook was reflected in BBC radio broadcasts from all round the world

Versatile actor, flamenco dancer and biographer of his friend and fellow Australian Peter Finch

Poet inspired by the remains of Roman north Africa, and tireless as an editor and lecturer

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

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