Best of British is the UK’s premier nostalgia magazine covering every aspect of life from the 1930’s to today.

Each issue encourages you to:

• Explore readers’ own recollections and memories in our Yesterday Remembered section
• Discover more about days gone past with stories on everything from vintage transport to great Britons and from Christmas traditions to great days out
• Enjoy regular reader favourites such as Treasures in the Attic, 1940’s Post, Postcard from… and of course our Puzzle Page and Crossword

We hope you like reading our magazine as much as we love compiling it. In the meantime here is this month’s letter from our Editor, Simon Stabler…

Roald Gold
If Roald Dahl had never put pen to paper, his contribution to British life would still have been considerable.

A war hero, spy and inventor, he was one of those people who shone at anything he turned his hand to. But his career as an author is what made Dahl a national treasure and his darkly comic books still merit a shelf of their own in bookshops, more than 25 years after his death.

To celebrate his centenary, we look at his life and career, offer a round-up of events to celebrate Roald Dahl Day (as his birthday is now known), and ask “Whatever happened to Julie Dawn Cole?”, the actress who played spoilt brat Veruca Salt in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory – a film that, like Dahl’s books, entrances audiences of all ages.

Skiffle might have had its origins in the United States, but it was a peculiarly British branch of pop, driven by washboards, tea chests and enthusiasm. We celebrate this “anyone can do it” musical genre and meet the Who and Small Faces drummer Kenney Jones, who, like many a famous British musician of the 1960s, was inspired to start a band after seeing Lonnie Donegan on telly.

And talking of TV, we go behind the scenes to reveal why you can never trust everything you see on the screen. Along with mocked-up newspapers and labels for bottles of Peckham Spring Water, our informant, one of television’s masters of deception, explains how he would use household items to create gruesome body parts, cobwebs and mouldy plates of food.

Ugh! I suspect he would have got on well with our Mr Dahl.

• In November we’ll be marking the 60th anniversary of Premium Bonds and would like to hear your stories. Have you ever won a prize, are you still hoping that your numbers will come up or had you forgotten you had any Premium Bonds? Please let us know.