Christopher Small obituary
Musicologist and writer with radical views on education
Mindshapes talks kids’ apps, character creation and iPad education
Stuart Dredge: Rethinking Hickory Dickory Dock and Jack In The Beanstalk for app-happy children
Classics at risk at Royal Holloway, University of London
The Classics department at Royal Holloway, University of London, is threatened with closure. And that's just crazy
This week’s arts diary
Paul Andrew Williams's new film Song for Marion finishes location shooting, Jeanette Winterson tweets the Bible and Andrew Lloyd Webber lets schools take on Cats and Phantom
How to teach … Roald Dahl
On the Guardian Teacher Network you can find resources for Roald Dahl Day, which this year marks 50 swishwiffling years since James and the Giant Peach was first published
Norman Hampson obituary
Revisionist historian of the French Revolution
John Turner obituary
He developed theories of social change and intergroup behaviour
Carol Ann Duffy: ‘Poems are a form of texting’
The poet laureate believes the fun and creativity of mobile texting will turn today's children into exciting poets of tomorrow
School Wars: The Battle for Britain’s Education by Melissa Benn — review
The government's rush to remake the education system receives powerful criticism from Melissa Benn in her passionate defence of state schools, writes Anthony Seldon
David Holbrook obituary
Writer, teacher and critic, he saw humanity through a prism of art
Daniel McCracken obituary
Author of hugely successful textbooks on computing
The past in a pineapple ring
Peter Preston: I still remember my first chicken biriani, in 1958. Whatever Jamie Oliver and co do, food will always be living history
British Library digs out decorative paintings to brighten up dark ages
Library will display treasures such as illuminated royal transcripts and a 13th century pilgrimage route map as part of new show
More children read websites than comics, survey finds
Survey of children's reading habits shows websites and emails displacing books and comics
Taking Woody Guthrie’s politics to the people
Zoë Corbyn: Professor Will Kaufman has written a biography of the radical American folk singer Woody Guthrie, and is singing his way across the US to promote it