The Guardian view on the University of London and the Warburg Institute

Editorial: The University of London is looking for a legal ruling on the deed that gave it one of its great cultural treasure houses

In praise of … Suda On Line

Editorial: An online encyclopedia of the ancient Mediterranean world sets a challenging precedent for scholarly publications

Academics fear for Warburg Institute’s London library, saved from the Nazis

'Jewel in University of London's humanities crown' faces court review of status and protesters say it is at risk of being broken up

BBC launches CBeebies Storytime app to encourage pre-schoolers to read

iOS and Android release follows success of CBeebies Playtime, which has been downloaded nearly 3m times. By Stuart Dredge

School reports on writers deliver very bad reviews

Alison Flood: Charlotte Brontë wrote 'indifferently', according to her teachers, and many another writer's gifts have been roundly trashed by their teachers

David Brown obituary

Leading authority on Russian music with an enduring interest in the enigmatic character of Tchaikovsky

Hans-Ulrich Wehler obituary

Historian who revolutionised the study of German society and became one of the country's leading public intellectuals

Caitlin Moran: my sex quest years

Caitlin Moran's parents never told her about the birds and the bees. So at 17 she went on a mission

How to read to babies without feeling ridiculous

Alison Flood: US paediatricians are urging parents to read to children from their earliest days, which is not easy with the youngest babies

Alan Bennett launches fierce attack on private education

Writer tells audience at a Cambridge University lecture that current system is 'both wrong and a waste'

JRR Tolkien called teaching ‘exhausting and depressing’ in unseen letter

Lord of the Rings author's rediscovered message to fellow teacher talks about how frustrating he found the work

Why boarding schools produce bad leaders

The elite tradition is to send children away at a young age to be educated. But future politicians who suffer this 'privileged abandonment' often turn out as bullies or bumblers. A psychotherapist explains why

We are losing the art of reading

Andy Miller: The pleasures of reading involve patience, solitude and contemplation, but we rush to consume content effortlessly

Back to school, Mr Gove: authors choose their GCSE set texts

Michael Gove has been lambasted for meddling with the English GCSE syllabus, but is it due for an overhaul? Mary Beard, William Boyd, Hanif Kureishi, Will Self and other cultural figures choose their set texts. Which books would you pick?

From weeping warts to leprosy: the gruesome art of medical illustration

Before photography, doctors treating everything from leprosy to syphilis turned to an astonishing array of illustrations for guidance. Will Self finds a grotesque beauty in a new collection chronicling people and their poxes