Charlie Higson hands Fast Show scripts to UEA literary archive
Young Bond author was going to throw away manuscripts that will now sit alongside works by JD Salinger and Doris Lessing
Ian McEwan and others criticise UEA for ‘thuggish’ development plans
Ian McEwan and Andrew Motion among those opposed to University of East Anglia’s rugby and parking development on wildflower meadows
The game is up: Shakespeare’s language not as original as dictionaries think
Australian academic David McInnis claims literary bias by first editors of OED has credited Shakespeare with inventing phrases in common Elizabethan use
John Heath obituary
Other lives: Professor of economics at London Business School
The Gardener and the Carpenter review – an organic approach to parenting
Children need freedom and space to thrive, argues psychologist Alison Gopnik in this persuasive book
John Hearle obituary
Other lives: Expert in textiles who advanced understanding of the behaviour of fibres
Lost cities #4: Pompeii was preserved by disaster. Now it risks ruin all over again
The volcanic eruption that destroyed the Roman city also froze it in time – but now, 2,000 years later, it is alive with people who threaten its existence all over again
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