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.

In the Royal Greenwich Observatory Archives at Cambridge University Library, one man's papers take up a staggering 110 meters ...

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 ...

To a navigator, time and distance are tightly linked. Earth turns 360 degrees on its axis every 24 hours. This means that a person standing on the equator travels east one degree of longitude ...

The ensemble of buildings at Greenwich, an outlying district of London, and the park in which they are set, symbolize English artistic and scientific endeavour in the 17th and 18th centuries. The ...

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 ...

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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 ...