Walter Laqueur obituary

Distinguished historian, journalist and scholar who focused on terrorism, the Holocaust and the decline of Europe

Roger Mainwood obituary

Film director and animator who brought Raymond Briggs’s stories to life on screen

Journalist and scourge of the establishment who tempered his criticism when writing about the wine trade

Other lives: Literary scholar, teacher and poet with a special interest in the 17th century

Creator of the Postman Pat stories, who depicted a community-spirited but disappearing world

Other lives: Political economist, author and liberal thinker who embraced the role of public intellectual

Scholar who established heritage studies as an academic discipline in its own right

American architect who reluctantly led the way in shaping postmodernism

Architectural historian and supporter of the classical tradition

Other lives: Distinguished scholar of 18th-century French literature

Scholar who focused on the history of science

Ambassador to Japan in the early 1980s who became an expert on the country’s culture and history

Other lives: Travel writer fascinated by the highways and byways of Slovakia

Literary scholar dedicated to restoring the reputation of the Victorian novelist George Gissing

Other lives: Head librarian of Surrey University who was interested in new technology