A CIRCULAR from the Ministry of Town and Country Planning directs attention to a new series of maps of Great Britain constructed to illustrate various aspects of national life and resources.

It is named after Pope Gregory XIII, who introduced it in October 1582. The rest of Great Britain adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1752, but Foula stuck with the old Julian calendar. The change ...

Several parts of Britain could be battered by -1C Arctic showers as live weather maps have turned purple for 12 hours. Weather maps from WXCharts suggest a huge wall of snow will begin to enter ...

As Kris Butler explains in his copiously illustrated Drink Maps in Victorian Britain, those magistrates were empowered by a judicial determination that pubs and other alcohol vendors had no ...

Britain and ... The world map would have been redrawn at the costs of huge amounts of war material and what could have been millions of lives. And all the while - a great evil would have been ...

Met Office maps have revealed the exact moment snow is ... The north of England may see some sunny spells by the afternoon. Much of Britain will experience seasonal average temperatures, with ...

In Britain 99 per cent of the period of human occupation predates Neolithic and later settlement and agriculture. That 99 per cent has been partly obliterated by the more recent 1 per cent of ...

Snow maps have revealed the precise day a massive 550-mile snow wall is expected to engulf the UK, rendering the British Isles barely visible. WXCharts forecasts that snow will hit the east coast of ...

Globe staffers tell us the stories behind some great images from the past year. In this edition of Photos of the Year, Globe photographers capture what made 2024 memorable in Boston and around the ...