One of the lesser benefices conferred by Britain’s empire builders on untutored natives was the British monetary system of pence, shillings (12 pence) and pounds (20 shillings). As the empire ...

People need “pounds, shillings and pence” rather than taskforces to deal with the impact of Storm Éowyn on local communities, according to Independent Ireland TD Michael Fitzmaurice. The ...

After more than four centuries of a cumbersome system based on pounds, shillings and pence—12 pence to the shilling, 20 shillings to the pound—the pound will equal 100 new pennies under the ...

The story of Decimal Day when the UK switched from pounds, shillings and pence, as seen through the BBC archive.

In theory, as British subjects, the colonists should have been using the British monetary system of pounds, shillings, and pence ...

The symbol '/' was used in the United Kingdom to separate shillings from pence when writing out sums of money: thus “2/6” meant two shillings and six pence, whereas “5/-“ meant five ...

It was all change on this day in history for everyone in the UK when we all said goodbye to pounds, shillings and pence.