IF it were possible to make a clean sweep of British units of measurement and substitute for them the metric system, probably no one would benefit more than the surveyor and map maker. No one who has ...

THE first of these works is by a long way the best and most convenient geological map of the British Isles, both for lecturers and students; and this new and greatly revised edition has added ...

This fascinating new exhibition in London reveals the multitude of ways that maps have been used to both explain and manipulate the world, from across the centuries ...

There might be nothing more human than looking at the night sky and trying to understand our place in the universe. Long before our ancestors learned how to write they used the stars to make sense of ...

A DNA-based study has answered the question of how British or Irish people in Northern Ireland actually are. The results of a test of two million people around the UK, carried out by genealogy website ...