Where can you read the latest evidence-based health advice, followed by a dramatic real-life tale of survival in the oceans? Where can you pore over beautiful photos of ancient cultural traditions and, on the next page, have a chance to win ￡50 with a prize question? Where can you read the personal memories of a well-known figure, and then receive top travel tips about a must-see destination?

Reader's Digest has been the source of all of this — and much more — for 95 years.

During the First World War, a young American soldier was recuperating from a shrapnel injury in France. DeWitt Wallace, a copywriter by trade, spent four months reading magazines as he recovered — and it gave him an idea.

Returning to New York, he decided to create a magazine that was a compilation of all the best articles from other publications. The first issue of Reader's Digest was printed in 1922, and it went on to reach a global audience of millions in dozens of worldwide editions.

The first UK edition of Reader's Digest hit the shelves in March 1938, and we've produced an edition for eager readers every month since then.