Edward Heath during the 1975 European referendum campaign. Photograph: AP
We've dug up some facsimile Guardian articles (in pdf format) from the Ted Heath era, and they make fascinating reading. Here's Peter Jenkins in 1974, when bolts of Manchester cotton and a "Robaphone" telephone answering service were advertised on the front page:
"His departure might have been more moving if he had not outstayed his welcome. He left for the Palace to the sound of boos - cruel music to the sensitive ears of a man who had tried his best to serve his country."
We also have archive reports on his sacking of Enoch Powell as a shadow cabinet minister after the "rivers of blood" speech in 1968 and Heath's arrival at Downing Street in 1970 (when Keele University students were shocking locals by "frolicking" in the nude). For an obituary, tributes and pictures of Sir Edward - with and without Margaret Thatcher - see our special page.
