Give us the Mr Men version of history

Open thread: Michael Gove doesn't seem to think Roger Hargreaves' characters make good teaching aids. Can you prove him wrong?

The Glass Room restored

Mies van der Rohe's Villa Tugendhat in Brno, one of the great buildings of European modernism, was the original Landauer House in Simon Mawer's novel. By Fiona MacCarthy

Robert Currie obituary

Other lives: Dedicated teacher, politics lecturer and scholar at Wadham College, Oxford

Historic houses, without the swagger

Kathryn Hughes: Our views of the past have changed, and we're less interested in grand stately homes than their humble kitchens and outhouses

John House obituary

International expert on impressionism who became a professor at the Courtauld Institute

Anthony Sutcliffe obituary

Academic and writer who helped to develop the disciplines of urban and planning history

Good to meet you: Ben Clempson

A reader who uses the Guardian as a teaching aid in his politics and history classes

Norman Hampson obituary

Revisionist historian of the French Revolution

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

John G Rule obituary

Social historian of life and labour in Georgian and Victorian Britain

Richard Holmes obituary

Military historian and TA brigadier, he focused on the lives of troops on the frontline

Leo Steinberg obituary

Art historian and critic known for his elegant investigations of Renaissance paintings

Niall Ferguson: school history lessons ‘lack all cohesion’

Historian says too few pupils are spending too little time studying history, particularly in state schools

Robert Markus obituary

Medieval history scholar who helped establish the idea of Late Antiquity

How Dickens and Doré forecast our winter of discontent

Jonathan Jones: Victorian artists depicted the horrors of inequality as no previous age had ever done. Their work is a warning to the coalition not to repeat the dark side of the 19th century