Frédérick Leboyer obituary

Obstetrician best known for his revolutionary 1974 book, Birth Without Violence

Angela Yaffey obituary

Other lives: Member of the staff at the BBC’s Monitoring Service at Caversham Park

Novelist and journalist Amanda Craig remembers a warm friend… and literary inspiration

Other lives: Historian and author who played a vital role in the development of Harlow new town

Other lives: Novelist who was one of the leading participants in the first Aldermaston marches of the 1950s

Director of the Clerkes of Oxenford, pioneering performers of Tudor polyphony

Other lives: Food writer and historian who authored The Loaves and Fishes Miracle Cookbook

Other lives: Award-winning political historian who was head of the Bengali service of the BBC

Genre-defying novelist and screenwriter whose book Falling Angel became the cult film Angel Heart

Cartoonist who created many of the great Beano characters including Minnie the Minx and the Bash Street Kids

Political scientist at the London School of Economics whose work concentrated on the office of prime minister, the cabinet and local government

The pioneering founder of a literary consultancy dedicated to helping aspiring writers

Other lives: Linguist and expert on the the Russian theatrical innovator Vsevelod Meyerhold

Other lives: Book publicist who also photographed street life in Kolkata

Pre-eminent conservator who transformed the understanding, handling and preservation of rare manuscripts