Authors fight to preserve school library
Philip Pullman tells head her comprehensive will be a 'byword for ignorance' if closure goes ahead
Mick Standen
Obituary: A tutor and champion of liberal adult education for the Workers' Educational Association
Derek Brewer
Obituary: Scholar of medieval literature and leading expert on Chaucer
Stop worrying about coffee, computers and chatter
Response: There has been too much nervousness and too little leadership in the running of our libraries, says Lyn Brown
Alan Bennett criticises ‘massive’ student debt
Playwright extols value of free education as he donates his archive to the Bodleian library
Meet the historical hoodies
New book by academic shows Manchester's historical precedent for knife crime and gangs, and may have some lessons for similar problems today
A most unshowy icon
Pioneering feminist writer and activist Sheila Rowbotham tells Melissa Benn about how students battled to save her job
Writing on the wall
Editorial: The only hope for libraries lies in revolution - long overdue, and in places already under way
Atlas reveals how you are likely to die
New maps of mortality chart how geographical differences influence the main causes of death
Alan Bennett’s teenage musings rediscovered
Exeter College to publish undergraduate comments and jokes taken from college suggestion book
Andy Burnham: a barbarian
Andrew Brown: The culture secretary is proposing that libraries should abandon the rule of silence. What a cruel and futile plan
Can video games encourage reading?
Mary Richert: Authors and publishers are using video games to hook young readers. It's a smart move, but the proof is in the programming
Historian says Beatles were just capitalists, and not youth heroes
Cambridge University historian identifies rural revivalist Rolf Gardiner as true youth culture pioneer
Brideshead Revisited worked as 80s fantasy – today’s students may find it harder to swallow
Peter Bradshaw: The TV adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's novel struck a chord with paid-up members of the student grant generation. Hard up teens today will find it harder to relate