Historian Dominic Sandbrook examines why in the popular imagination the 1970s are lampooned and despised as the era of Edward Heath, the decade of the donkey jacket, and the age of the Austin Allegro.

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Was the 1970s really such a grim decade?

The Queen is expected to spend the weekend at Windsor Castle to mark the 75th anniversary of Edward VIII’s abdication.

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Queen marks abdication at castle

Those leaving are Ray Chelstowski, brought in as publisher in January; Tom Weber, the managing editor; and Edward Felsenthal, the executive editor. The departures reflect how much remains unsettled at Newsweek nearly a year after it was bought by Sidney Harman.

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Media Decoder Blog: Publisher and Two Top Editors Are Out at Newsweek/Daily Beast

The premise of “Anonymous,” that the plays and poems commonly attributed to William Shakespeare were actually the work of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, is hardly new.

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Movie Review | ‘Anonymous’: ‘Anonymous,’ by Roland Emmerich – Review

A rare revival of Edward Bond’s notorious 1960s play Saved still has the power to shock, says original 1960s cast member Tony Selby.

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Saved ‘still has power to shock’

Haulage magnate Edward Stobart died bankrupt and owing creditors about £220,000, it emerges.

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Lorry chief Stobart died bankrupt

Veteran actor Edward Hardwicke, best known for starring in the BBC drama Colditz and as Dr Watson in The Return of Sherlock Holmes, dies aged 78.

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Colditz TV actor Hardwicke dies

Mourners will gather at Carlisle Cathedral later for the funeral of haulage magnate Edward Stobart.

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Cathedral funeral for lorry chief

Items once owned by Wallis Simpson, the woman for whom Edward VIII renounced the throne, are set to be sold in an auction.

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Wallis Simpson’s scarlet nightwear up for sale

Student Edward Woollard, 18, who admitted throwing a fire extinguisher from the roof of a building during the student fees protests, has been jailed for two years and eight months.

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Extinguisher throwing student jailed

After mixing celeriac with polenta, Edward Schneider finds that he could clearly taste both the corn and the celeriac, and the consistency was as though he had used cream, thanks to the fine puree.

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Diner’s Journal: Polenta Made Creamy With Celeriac

Jon Stewart’s role in pushing for a bill to provide health care for 9/11 responders has drawn comparisons to Edward R. Murrow.

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News Analysis: In ‘Daily Show’ Role on 9/11 Bill, Echoes of Murrow

The head of the BBC believed a “miserable, second-rate American woman” was behind the abdication of Edward VIII, archive documents reveal.

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BBC chief’s abdication anger revealed

A bracelet owned by Wallis Simpson, whose affair with Edward VIII led to his abdication, has sold for a world record-breaking £4.5m at auction.

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Wallis Simpson bracelet sells for record £4.5m

The fomer Bishop of Derry, Edward Daly, says he has difficulty accepting the police ombudsman’s conclusions on the Claudy bombings.

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Daly sceptical over Claudy claims