The new monuments we need? Your nan’s old dress or a Stormzy lyric carved in stone

Instead of stern, elevated statues, here are some ways I’d like to remember

Malcolm Chase obituary

Social historian who was a leading authority on the Chartists

Paul Addison obituary

Historian of British politics and society during and after the second world war

Antonia Gransden obituary

Other lives: One of the foremost medievalists of her generation

Sir Michael Howard obituary

One of Britain’s greatest military historians hailed for his 1961 masterpiece The Franco-Prussian War

Hollow Places by Christopher Hadley review – dragons and the nature of history

This ingenious book, a compelling wild goose chase, begins with a tomb and traces a legend through a thousand years

Hugh Brogan obituary

Leading historian of the US admired for his acclaimed biographies of Alexis de Tocqueville and Arthur Ransome

Ibram X Kendi on why not being racist is not enough

The historian on how he confronted his own racism and the lessons he learned along the way, the far right’s abuse of free speech, and why the rise of the Squad gives him hope

Norman Stone obituary

Historian and controversial media commentator who taught at Cambridge, Oxford and in Turkey

Horrible Histories: Terrible Tudors review – grisly gags at the Tower of London

Iffy insults fly, heads bounce around and the wiper of the king’s bottom takes a bow – all in the moat where alligators swam

Peter Kidson obituary

Other lives: Outstanding historian of medieval architecture

Did Henry VI have a sex coach in his marriage bed?

The medieval monarch and his queen, Margaret of Anjou, were not alone at night, historian Lauren Johnson reveals

How we made Horrible Histories

‘If someone getting wee poured over them helps people learn some facts, we’re doing our job right’

Eric Richards obituary

Other lives: Eminent historian of the Highland clearances and of emigration

A sheep in wolf’s clothing? The other side of Henry VIII

Testimony of servants reveals Tudor monarch in a softer light for historian Tracy Borman