The British Isles may soon become a thing of the past - not literally but certainly in text books. The term has been banished from a new atlas because it is too old fashioned, denotes an era long ...

Jim Mee is kayaking 1,000km laterally across Britain, from eastern English to western Ireland. He has just completed the crux ...

IN the University of Gottingen there is apparently the only copy of a map of the British Isles published in 1603 by John Woutneel and engraved by William Kip. It is a large sheet cut into four and ...

By plotting each person onto a map of the British Isles, using the centre point of their grandparents' birth places, they were able to see how this distribution correlated with their genetic ...

The British Isles may soon become a thing of the past - not literally but certainly in text books. The term has been banished from a new atlas because it is too old fashioned, denotes an era long ...