Children’s book on the Queen’s jubilee given cold shoulder by schools in Wales and Scotland
Details released of tale about Queen’s 70-year reign, which is felt to be too ‘Anglocentric’ by devolved governments
Chums: How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK by Simon Kuper – review
A penetrating analysis of the connections that enabled an incestuous university network to dominate Westminster and give birth to Brexit is perceptive and full of surprises
The School That Escaped the Nazis by Deborah Cadbury – review
The story of a co-educational boarding school that was spirited from Hitler’s Germany to the Kent countryside is structurally flawed but emotionally compelling
Stolen Darwin journals returned to Cambridge University library
Seminal works left in pink gift bag with ‘happy Easter’ note for librarian after going missing in 2001
‘Out of touch’: children’s authors describe increasing censorship of books on diversity
Fear of backlash means stories about race, sexuality and neurodiversity increasingly deemed inappropriate for young readers
Sir John Elliott obituary
Historian of imperial Spain known for his vivid biography of a 17th-century statesman, the count-duke of Olivares
Museum visits do not improve GCSE results, study reveals
Report finds no correlation between better exam grades and exposure to ‘middle-class’ outings
Catholic church bans visit by gay author to London school
Simon James Green had been due to appear at John Fisher boys’ school in Purley, but the archdiocese of Southwark said the event could not be permitted
Dillibe Onyeama, whose memoir of racist abuse at Eton shook the establishment
Onyeama became the first black person to complete his studies at the prestigious school, and a 1972 book, which Eton tried to quash, detailed the daily racist abuse he suffered
Forget Wordle! Can you crack the Dickens Code? An IT worker from California just did
The writer’s archaic shorthand has baffled experts for over a century. So they launched a deciphering competition for fans – with stunning results that cast new light on his love life and financial peril
Costa winner Hannah Lowe: ‘Should teachers write about students? That question’s too categorical’
The teacher-turned-poet on getting into writing later in life, the ethics of poems about former students and how her years working in schools shaped her thinking
Cancel culture is real but it’s not the ‘woke mob’ you should worry about
Books deemed anti-church or containing LGBTQ issues are bring banned across the US at a terrifying rate by the conservative right, writes Arwa Mahdawi
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas ‘may fuel dangerous Holocaust fallacies’
John Boyne’s story is used by more than a third of teachers in England in lessons on the Nazi genocide, a study found
Most English teachers want a more diverse syllabus, research finds
Survey of primary and secondary teachers shows overwhelming majority would like to teach more representative books
Pick the habit: the best podcasts to get you into a new hobby
Want to learn a language, start gardening, read more, or make running and meditation a habit for the new year? There’s a podcast for that …