‘It happens to real people’: how to help children grasp the horror of the Holocaust
Remembering the questions of his own childhood has helped Michael Rosen to tell pupils difficult truths
Peter Wollen obituary
Film-maker and theorist whose groundbreaking textbook was instrumental in launching a new academic discipline
Jasper Griffin obituary
Influential Oxford classicist who brought new insights to the study of the Iliad and the Odyssey
Karl Meyer obituary
Other lives: Journalist on the New York Times and the Washington Post who covered major international stories including the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba
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