Antony Copley obituary
Other lives: Historian and campaigner who taught at universities around the world
Eton’s commitment to public service is a danger to us all
Acts of vandalism committed by its old boys are of a piece with our deference to private-school sages
A tribute to female flâneurs: the women who reclaimed our city streets
The flâneur – the keen-eyed stroller who chronicles the minutiae of city life – has long been seen as a man’s role. From Virginia Woolf to Martha Gellhorn, it’s time we recognised the vital, transgressive work of the flâneuse
Maurice Holt obituary
Other lives: Educationist for whom teaching and learning were about values and not just a delivery system for facts
The 100 best nonfiction books: No 25 – The Uses of Literacy: Aspects of Working-Class Life (1957)
This influential cultural study of postwar Britain offers pertinent truths on mass communication and the interaction between ordinary people and the elites
The Staircase Girls by Catherine Seymour review – Cambridge ‘bedders’ and the class divide
Bedders at Cambridge University are housekeepers that form part of revered Oxbridge traditions. But over the years what was their view of the privileged students?
The Very Quiet Foreign Girls poetry group
The Long Read: When Kate Clanchy began teaching the children of refugees, she sought out those silenced by trauma and loss. Their weekly sessions released a torrent of untold stories
Asloob Ahmad Ansari obituary
Other lives: Scholar of English, critic and editor
New writing is a risk but it’s one theatres must take
Diversity is key to ensuring a new generation shape theatre’s future. But endless development isn’t enough – new plays must be put in front of audiences
Clive James: ‘The English language is under siege from tone-deaf activists’
Anybody who says ‘IMHO’ is no more humble than Saddam Hussein and Imelda Marcos dancing the tango
Grimm & Co’s magical approach to helping children write stories
A scheme in Rotherham aims to boost Sats results and improve lives by harnessing children’s creativity
Is Rushdie right about rote learning? Is Rushdie right about rote learning?
Salman Rushdie thinks schoolchildren should learn poems by heart, and some experts think that, far from making kids hate poetry, the practice could be ‘life-enhancing’
Exam board rules on punctuation are wrong, wrong, and wrong
Linguistics expert David Crystal tells Hay festival that school advisers are ‘not aware of complexity of decisions they are asking kids to make’
Boys who live with books ‘earn more as adults’
Italian economists find access to books can materially affect earnings compared with those who grew up with few or none
Portland schools ditch textbooks that question climate change
City’s education board will now insist on teaching that ‘the climate crisis is created by human beings’