In order to keep time accurately, we have always had to set our clocks by the ticks of a better one. Until the 1950s, the best were those set by astronomers based on the position of the sun in the sky ...

As the clocks go forward this weekend, the FT’s senior graphics artist walks a fine (meridian) line through the birthplace of GMT in its 350th-anniversary year ...

BM3CMJ Royal Observatory Greenwich with 24-hour Gate Clock, Ordnance Survey Bench Mark and Public Measures of Length This means when the clocks go back, the country returns to the default time ...

Near the small town of Herstmonceux in the English county of East Sussex sits the former home of the Royal Greenwich Observatory. The Royal Observatory Greenwich was first built in Greenwich ...

The UK will bid farewell to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT ... While the shift promises brighter evenings, the annual clock change sparks ongoing debate about its effects, both positive and negative.

In the Royal Greenwich Observatory Archives at Cambridge University Library, one man’s papers take up a staggering 110 meters of shelving. In a new article from Isis: the Journal of the History ...

The park, laid out on the basis of an original design by André Le Nôtre, contains the Old Royal Observatory, the work of Wren and the scientist Robert Hooke. Description is available under license ...

At the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, home of the meridian, the partial eclipse started at 10.07am, with the moon appearing to take nibble from the edge of the sun. Most of us are normally ...

Nestled in the rolling green hills of the English countryside is an important site in global astronomical history. But now, with its future uncertain, this historic site is at risk. Near the small ...

Near the small town of Herstmonceux in the English county of East Sussex sits the former home of the Royal Greenwich Observatory. The Royal Observatory Greenwich was first built in Greenwich ...