Nigel Jenkins obituary

Other lives: Welsh writer and performance poet who became a leading literary figure in his homeland

Clarissa Dickson Wright obituary

Cook, bookshop owner and writer who found fame as one of BBC TV's Two Fat Ladies

Controversial writer and journalist known for Fatal Vision and The Selling of the President

Historian, archaeologist and authority on the Anglo-Saxons

Founder of New Scientist, Sunday Times journalist and BBC broadcaster who made complicated subjects easy to understand

Other lives: Career librarian who built a reputation as a painter of groups of people

Historian who founded the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at the University of Manchester

Other lives: Key figure in the West Indian trade union movement and nationalist politics, who became an influential historian of the Caribbean

Martin Jacques, the former editor of Marxism Today, considers the impact of sociologist and cultural theorist Stuart Hall

Influential cultural theorist, campaigner and founding editor of the New Left Review

Architectural historian best known for his work on nonconformist chapels and meeting houses

One of the first women to write about wine, she was known for her prickly put-downs and forthright views about food and drink

Art historian, critic, academic and sometime newspaper cartoonist

Writer, art historian and gastronome with an enthusiasm for the Spanish way of life

Ed Vulliamy remembers his friend, the travel writer and historian