Paul Oliver obituary

Respected commentator on architectural history and music, especially the blues

David Gill obituary

Poet, teacher and peace activist whose poems are still taught in secondary schools

Fanny Hill: why would anyone ban the racy novel about ‘a woman of pleasure’?

A London university is said to have struck John Cleland’s 1748 novel off its reading list for fear of offending sensitive millennials. Censorship, mollycoddling or silly-season tosh?

Pearson to axe 3,000 jobs after slump at main US business

Cost-cutting move aims to save educational publisher about £300m a year with 10% cut in global staff after biggest loss in history in 2016

Peter Skrine obituary

Other lives: Professor of German who taught with humour and erudition

‘We felt we had no option’: school trips halted over terror fears

Charities are worried about the number of schools cancelling cultural outings, just when they are needed more than ever

Denis Mack Smith obituary

Eminent historian of modern Italy who was a true populariser of his subject

Stephen Morley obituary

Other lives: Clinical psychologist whose life’s work focused on understanding and treating pain

Hilary Dixon obituary

Other lives: Teacher and author who changed professional thinking about sex and relationships education

‘Don’t be a jerk, even if you’re a chicken’: the cookbook written by kids

Hidden behind a deliciously silly supermarket in east London, the Ministry of Stories teaches children how writing can be a career – and their latest project is a cookbook

A Ferrante feast: a night out in support of global literacy

Charity event: Elena Ferrante’s books evoke Naples in all its drama, and inspired a Neapolitan fundraising feast in the heart of urban London – testament to the power of food and literature to do good

Boggle Trump to Trumplestiltskin: Donald inspires new children’s slang

The US president’s name, in more than 100 punning guises, was widely used by very young writers in entries to BBC Radio 2’s 500 Words story contest

Hilary Mantel was right – some academics dislike novelists. But why?

Hostility between academics and popular historians has a lengthy history of its own. Yet it doesn’t make sense – nonfiction and fiction nurture each other

Medieval Jewish papers tell vivid stories in Cambridge exhibition

11th-century documents from Genizah store in Old Cairo synagogue cover whole range of human life, co-curator says

Stiff Upper Lip: Secrets, Crimes and the Schooling of a Ruling Class – review

Alex Renton’s study of the enduring culture of abuse at Britain’s elite schools makes for powerful reading