Chris Brooks obituary

Historian who showed how the law became relevant to ordinary people in the aftermath of the English civil war

British Library gives teachers tools to inspire

Anna Baddeley: The Discovering Literature website is an important cultural resource that can be enjoyed by all ages

Bookless library opened by new US university

Florida Polytechnic University's enormous facility promises to make 'many more books available for the students' in digital form

Doris Lessing’s last gift: 3,000 books donated to public library in Zimbabwe

Books from collection owned by celebrated author, who died last year, to go to country where she lived for quarter of century

Dan Snow: ‘Clearly an app is better than a book for history’

Historian talks apps, YouTube and how his next project puts rich archives in the hands of children at first world war battlefields. By Stuart Dredge

David Smail obituary

Clinical psychologist and writer whose work focused on the damaging effects of an unequal society

Edinburgh festival 2014 review – Spine: angry blast at society that denies knowledge

A troubled teenager and elderly woman bond over library books in Clara Brennan's fierce one-woman play starring Rosie Wyatt, writes Lyn Gardner

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