Martin Lister obituary
Other lives: Clear-thinking writer and professor of photography and new media
Dame Averil Cameron obituary
Historian whose sparky, innovative Byzantines challenged the stereotype of a stagnant society with nothing new to offer
Brian Rotman obituary
Other lives: Mathematician, cultural theorist and playwright who taught in British and American universities
Peter Messent obituary
Other lives: Professor of American studies at Nottingham University and an authority on the writer Mark Twain
Ted Booth obituary
Other lives: Lecturer in creative writing for 26 years at Hornsey College of Art in London
Mahmood Mamdani on Zohran, Uganda and forced expulsion: ‘Who is part of the nation and who is not?’
After being expelled from his homeland in 1972, the academic has grappled with questions of political belonging – a major theme of his son’s mayoral campaign
‘A girl of genius’: archives unsealed of Amy Levy, queer Jewish writer admired by Oscar Wilde
Levy’s work was ‘ahead of her time’ and speaks to current debate around feminism, LGBTQ+ literature and Jewish identity, say researchers
Kemi Badenoch wants to end ‘rip-off degrees’ – but I wouldn’t have created Horrid Henry without mine
I studied Old and Middle English. Although I didn’t know it, I couldn’t have chosen a better subject to train me to become a children’s author, says author Francesca Simon
John Searle obituary
American philosopher whose Chinese Room thought experiment rebuts the idea that computers can think as humans do
Paula Heister obituary
Other lives: Doctor and teacher of medicine who also worked as a children’s author and illustrator
John Hall obituary
Other lives: English lecturer and poet who created one of the first degree courses in performance writing at Dartington College in Devon
Lord Desai obituary
Economist who reassessed Karl Marx’s view of the durability of capitalism and wrote on Indian culture and history
The Rev John Heywood Thomas obituary
Other lives: Theologian of note and proud champion of the Welsh language
John Noone obituary
Other lives: English lecturer and writer who turned from fiction to non-fiction – and back again
Tool to identify poisonous books developed by University of St Andrews
Arsenic was historically mixed with copper to create a vivid green for book covers, which can irritate modern day readers