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E-Mail IMAGE: A new coin from the Royal Mint marks 50 years since Britain went decimal. view more Credit: The Royal Mint The move from the ancient system of £sd coinage to 100p to £1 was controversial, considered by some to be a sign of the UK s receding importance on the world stage and even as the beginning of the tumultuous relationship with Europe that ultimately led to Brexit. But as a result of extensive analysis of a quiet backwater of recent history, Andy argues that the move towards decimalisation had little to do with Europe and in fact was a traditional British compromise. ....
1902 (dated) 1 : 1013760 Description This massive, six-sheet map of Persia produced in 1897 by the British Survey of India (updated to 1902) was the most detailed map of what is now Iran, Iraq, and parts of Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan that had been executed to date: we are aware of no comparable map prior. Its exhaustive detail would continue to command respect well into the 20th century: the German military faithfully copied this map in 1918, as they did with other British maps of important theaters in the Great War. The MapThe map was printed in color to six large sheets which were then dissected and mounted on linen to form four folding quadrants, three of twenty-four panels and one of twenty-eight. The map s scope includes Baghdad and the borders of the Turkish Empire to the west, and reaches eastwards to Afghanistan and Baluchistan (now part of Pakistan.) Barring part of the coastline near Kuwait and the portion of Oman overlooking the S ....