Rick Vick obituary
Other lives: Poet who taught in prisons and rehab centres
Mary Warnock remembered by Onora O’Neill
The philosopher’s former student on a practical thinker whose public work on the IVF bill is her great legacy
Sir Michael Howard obituary
One of Britain’s greatest military historians hailed for his 1961 masterpiece The Franco-Prussian War
Corbyn: I guarantee libraries will be protected under Labour
Party leader says that cuts-hit service gave him ‘a fantastic start in life and I want that for everybody’
David Manson obituary
Pioneering dentist whose book on the structures supporting teeth is a key reference work
Teacher who helps migrant children turn pain into prize poetry
One child wrote of a suicide bomber; another of the ‘sweet honey mangoes’ of home. Kate Clanchy helps them tune into their inner voice
Moving stories: inside the book buses changing children’s lives
Around the world, mobile library programmes are taking books, educational support and even counselling to communities in serious and urgent need
Dear Gavin Williamson, how strange that prisons have to have a library but schools do not
A new report shows one in eight schools has no library – and it affects the poorest children most
Caroline Williams obituary
Other lives: Authority on Latin American history and highly respected teacher
Why mathematicians just can’t quit their blackboards
Photographer Jessica Wynne captures the peculiar devotion of academics to working out their problems with chalk
Obscenity judge’s copy of Lady Chatterley’s Lover to stay in UK
Book bearing notes from the judge’s wife about ‘coarse’ content bought by Bristol University after a crowdfunding campaign
George Richardson obituary
Oxford academic who transformed the Oxford University Press and laid the foundations for subsequent growth
‘It is educational apartheid’: are we finally ready to end private schools?
With Labour voting for their abolition, are we finally seeing a shift in public mood against the institutions at the heart of our unjust society?
St John’s College, Oxford library and study centre – a touch of mod in the quad
Reframing the idea of the academic library, Wright & Wright’s new addition to the college is a quiet triumph of artistry, invention and environmental responsibility
‘What’s taking so long?’: children’s books still neglect BAME readers, finds study
Although picture has improved since 2017, research shows that last year only 4% of books for the youngest readers featured a minority ethnic hero