Obama’s former speechwriter Ben Rhodes examines the US through its 15 most defining speeches
From Frederick Douglass to Obama, Ben Rhodes shares the speeches that explain the US in his new book, All We Say
Peter Stead obituary
Other lives: Swansea University historian whose attention focused on popular culture and its practitioners
Dame Averil Cameron obituary
Historian whose sparky, innovative Byzantines challenged the stereotype of a stagnant society with nothing new to offer
The crisis whisperer: how Adam Tooze makes sense of our bewildering age
The long read: Whether it’s the financial crash, the climate emergency or the breakdown of the international order, historian Adam Tooze has become the go-to guide to the radical new world we’ve entered
Brutal, vibrant and creative: capturing the soul of Latin America in 100 photographs
The journalist and historian Paulo Antonio Paranaguá uses images from the turbulent continent to weave a history of the region, covering colonisation, slavery and dictatorship
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
Frank O’Gorman obituary
Other lives: Manchester University historian who wrote books on 18th- and 19th-century society
Qiu Xigui obituary
Paleographer, historian and expert on ancient Chinese writing
Carol Diethe obituary
Other lives: Lecturer in the history of ideas who became one of the UK’s leading Nietzsche scholars
John Seed obituary
Other lives: Author, poet and academic whose books often fused history with verse
Bob Moore obituary
Other lives: Medieval historian at Sheffield and Newcastle universities who wrote influential books on heresy and the roots of intolerance
Brian Maidment obituary
Other lives: Academic expert on downmarket illustrated books, prints and ephemera of Georgian and Victorian eras
Richard Rathbone obituary
Other lives: Professor of African history at Soas who delighted in his membership of a local choir in Wales
John Shepherd obituary
Other lives: Historian of the Labour party who wrote a biography of the 1930s leader George Lansbury
Newly uncovered sites reveal true power of great Viking army in Britain
Previously unseen artefacts show invading forces included communities of men, women, children, craftworkers and merchants