John Cowley obituary

Other Lives: Librarian who looked forward to new challenges

Peter Dronke obituary

Scholar of medieval Latin who shone light on Hildegard of Bingen and other female writers of the Middle Ages

Other lives: Edith Redstone, who lived to be 101, believed the secret to longevity was to ‘keep moving’

Other lives: Poet and literary scholar who radiated warmth and humility

Other lives: Editor of OUP’s Oxford Illustrated Encyclopaedia

Other lives: Journalist who was instrumental in the revival of the term Fitzrovia to describe the London district in which he lived

Co-author with Per Wahlöö of the Martin Beck crime series that blazed a trail for Scandinavian crime fiction

Stage and screen actor who played DI Maggie Forbes in the pioneering TV police drama The Gentle Touch in the 1980s

Writer and cartographer who documented the landscapes of the west coast of Ireland in a series of influential books

John Coates became a leading scholar of the Edwardian writer GK Chesterton

Pioneer of left realism within criminology who questioned state responses to prostitution

Granddaughter of HG Wells who had a love of poetry

Children’s author and illustrator whose Strega Nona books delighted generations of readers

Eccentric aristocrat and chatelain of the Longleat safari park who was a favourite of newspaper gossip columns

Illustrator who with the writer René Goscinny created the much-loved comic books featuring the exploits of Asterix the Gaul