Best of British - August 2007
Barbara Windsor turns 70.    Ealing Studios’ remarkable films.    WWII Lancaster that failed to return.    Alan Freeman – pilot of the airwaves.   Seasons in the sun – holidays from long ago.    How we survived playground bullying.    BBC Radio’s Write a Tune for £1,000.    National Trust’s top ten most visited English sites.    An enthusiasm for Morgan hand-built cars.    Hidcote Manor Garden returns to its roots.    When isolation hospitals helped the sick and feverish.    A dip in a 1930’s outdoor pool.    Nursing through the Manchester Blitz and Dieppe Raid.    The community spirit of a Special Constable.    Wollaton Hall restoration.    The heavy horses that used to grace our streets.    On summer camp with the Girls’ Brigade.    Trevor Mitchell’s painting, Harvest Lunch.    Collecting seaside souvenirs.    What to see in Winchester.    Belsay Hall, Northumberland.    Lord Rowallan – Scouting’s loyal ambassador. 

Best of British - July 2007
Advertising and illustrative art from the 1920s-50s.    Battle of Britain Memorial Flight half century.    Cutty Sark.    Ovaltine – malty goodness for over a hundred years.    Action Man is forty-something.    Tiller Girls.    Scotland’s Dalmunzie Railway.    From carriage to car – an uphill ride for the development of road transport.    British Navy’s WWII Norwegian rescue.    The importance of preserving family photographs.    The mystery of crop circles.    The Elfin Oak.    Chipping Campden’s new art museum.    Jammy memorabilia from yesterday’s pantry.    Nostalgia Gallery – Hurricane Battle of Britain painting.    Edith Weston Vintage Fayre pictures.    A country childhood and freedom to roam.    WWII war memorials book.    Songwriter Sonny Miller.    Keith & Dufftown Railway.    Pershore Abbey tree sculpture.    Typhoo Tea cigarette cards.    1940s clothing.   Holy Island of Lindisfarne.    Windsor Chairs.    Lillicrap’s Hone.

Best of British - June 2007
Sir Edward Elgar’s 150^th anniversary.   Sir Patrick Moore’s 50 years of TV astronomy.   Freddie & The Dreamers.   Diecast cap guns that fired our imagination.   Bandleader Bert Ambrose.   A boy learns the art of chimney sweeping.   Jessie Matthews – star of stage, screen, and Mrs Dale’s Diary.   The toys we should have kept.   Falklands Islands – more than just penguins & peat bogs.   Memories of a Forties RAF pilot.   Red Arrows encounter.   Collecting Torquay motto ware.   The pecking order of old department stores.    Kent’s Scotney Castle.   1950s motoring.   National Service memories.   Kemble Railway Station.   The village shop – more than just for groceries.   Ringtons – a century of quality cuppas.   Witchert – a building material that has stood the test of time.   Beautiful Selworthy.

Best of British - May 2007
Terence Cuneo – Britain’s greatest railway artist.    Isle of Man’s TT racing century of thrills.    Comedian Frank Randle.    Gloucestershire’s annual cheese rolling event.    Collecting old advertising signs and posters.    Songwriter Lionel Bart.    The 1940s – from Blitz to Victory, plus 1940s events in May.    Big Chief I Spy and his books that kept children quiet.    WWII girl flyers.    National Service and foreign climes.    Beautiful English villages.    Kiddie Kut books of the Fifties.    Family history research illuminated through old pictures.    The nostalgia of smells.    British proverbs on collecting cards.    Victorian Ordnance Survey maps revealing our history.    Castle Howard, near York.    Getting ready for the steam fair season, plus steam rally events in May.

Best of British - April 2007
FREE 24-page 1940s supplement: including a comprehensive guide to 2007 Forties events; dressing for re-enactment; real-life stories from a troubled decade; Bevin Boys – ordinary items from the Forties that are now collectable; what the Forties woman was reading; stepping into General Montgomery’s shoes at a wartime re-enactment; products from the 1940s home; entertainment 1940s-style; the bonds of friendships formed when the Yanks were ‘over here’.
Main magazine: The Falklands: 25 years on.   Ronnie Ronalde – the most famous whistler in the world.   Cycle saddle-makers Brooks.   Gerry & the Pacemakers.   Commando comic for adventurous boys.   Out and about on the Isle of Wight.   Balvenie whisky distillery.   National Service memories.   Grandma’s teatime treats.   The £20 a week football superstar Tommy Thomson.   The cream of Fifties motoring.   Allotment project across the generations.   Gloster Gladiator biplanes Faith, Hope and Charity that helped save Malta in WWII.   Why TV’s Secret Army still enchants.   Bandleader Jack Jackson.   Bure Valley Railway.   How darts became a popular pub game.   Tragedy of a wartime wedding.   Collecting bottle openers.   Holkham Hall.   Researching your family tree.   Card collectables – the Morris Minor.

Best of British - March 2007
Five-page guide to Britain’s top aviation events in 2007.   Ken Dodd.   National Service Memories.   Scalextric.   Collectable biscuit tins from the past.   Reaching for your Roots – using local resources to research your family history.   Boat races and bonfire nights – meaningful historic events.   Castle Coch.   Great British Characters – memories of old lifeboat men.   Cat artist Louis Wain.   A 1937 Railton.   Rough and Tumble of Cycle Speedway.   Games We Played in the Thirties.   Schoolboy howlers – classic blunders from the classroom.   Card collectables – British Railway Equipment.   Bulldog tools – a great British industry.   Recording Your Past – top tips to help you write your own life story.   Early 1950s television sets.   Behind the scenes of the BBC’s Jane Eyre drama at Belton House.   Songwriter Jos. Geo. Gilbert.