At the time, this was a familiar lament across many communities in the British Isles. But the Isle of Man, a UK Crown Dependency, had a secret weapon: its influential lieutenant governor, Sir ...

The fine-scale genetic structure of the British population. Nature, 2015; 519 (7543): 309 DOI: 10.1038/nature14230 ...

Books Received Published: 08 July 1897 Geological Map of the British Isles Mineralogical Geology: a Synopsis for the Use of Students G. A. J. C. Nature 56, 220–222 (1897) Cite this article ...

This is a genetic map of the British Isles, based on work by Professor Jim Wilson from the University of Edinburgh's Usher Institute and MRC Human Genetics Unit.

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 ...

The People of the British Isles (PoBI) project examined differences at more than 500,000 positions in the DNA of more than 2,000 people from the UK, thus creating the most detailed genetic map of ...

It is not known whether he produced a map from his endeavors, though the first century A.D. Greek geographer Ptolemy, who later made a map of the British Isles, may have used Pytheas' measurements ...

The coastal location of the highest mountains of the each of the countries of the British Isles could be down to geology or chance, but it is probably a results of tectonics, say our readers ...

Founded in 1988, the Center for British & Irish Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder promotes research and teaching in all aspects of global British and Irish history, geography, society, and ...