Derek Keene obituary

Historian who painted a vivid picture of life in medieval cities such as London and Winchester

Kevin Jackson obituary

Writer, essayist and broadcaster whose extraordinarily capacious intellect was allied to a sense of fun

Other Lives: Poet and small press publisher involved in the British counterculture of the 1960s

Other lives: Author and journalist who wrote a weekly column on surprising statistics for the Guardian in the 1990s

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

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