Harold Drasdo obituary

Climber, writer and outdoor instructor who as part of the Bradford Lads put up new routes in the heartlands of British climbing

John Donovan obituary

Other lives: Writer and artist who created sculptures from scrap metal

Other lives: Historian of Wales who influenced the course of Welsh devolution

Other lives: Determined fighter against fascism who helped to found the 43 Group

Britain’s most outspoken art critic, he went on to become an outraged commentator on politics

Other lives: Pioneer in the field of youth studies who also wrote widely on imperialism

Eminent Shakespearean scholar and theatre director who advocated the primacy of the playwright’s musical language in modern productions

Actor best known for her radio role as Trillian in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Other lives: Teacher and lecturer who wrote books about her home town of Wakefield

Other lives: Careers adviser and published poet who also worked with young people with special needs

Art historian whose writing illuminated the story of the St Ives art colony

Author who focused on his native Italy – both its beauty and its shortcomings

Ornithologist devoted to studying, filming and writing about seabirds, he became the ‘biographer’ of the gannet

Generous and inspiring, the prolific Zimbabwean writer and activist, who has died in exile in Norway, should be hailed as a national treasure

One of the most celebrated American novelists best known for his historical fiction whose books Ragtime and Billy Bathgate were turned into films