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.

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 and is geographically ...

First fine-scale genetic map of the British Isles Date: March 18, 2015 Source: Wellcome Trust Summary: Many people in the UK feel a strong sense of regional identity, and it now appears that there ...

A COLOURED map of the British Isles, designed to illustrate several aspects of their geography, has been published as a reprint from a Polish volume compiled under the editorship of Dr. Z. Holub ...

Fragments of stone engraved with abstract designs are the earliest known art in the British Isles, researchers say. They were made by hunter-gatherers who lived between 23,000 and 14,000 years ago ...

A sculpture of the British Isles representing three billion years of the geological age of the Earth will be officially unveiled today at Durham University. The map is made of different rocks ...

Across four episodes, Seth Lakeman takes us on a tour of the folk and traditional music of the British Isles, exploring the distinct sounds of different regions.

WWF and Music Declares Emergency have teamed up with some huge names from across the music industry to create a new British Isles music nature map. Check it out here. Read More: Elbow – ‘Audio ...

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 ...

Folens publishers has said it plans to produce a "more correct" version of its widely-used school atlas from January which will omit all references to the "British Isles", writes Áine Kerr. The ...

Fragments of stone engraved with abstract designs are the earliest known art in the British Isles, researchers say. They were made by hunter-gatherers who lived between 23,000 and 14,000 years ago ...

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 ...