Now that the United Kingdom is outside the European Union, it’s reviewing thousands of EU rules and regulations to see which it should jettison. Among them is the compulsory use of the metric system ...

The British system of measurement, once known as the Imperial System, found inspiration in the most ancient of Indus Valley cultures as well as its homegrown Saxon culture. The earliest form of the ...

To present-day Englishmen, the British Imperial System does not mean the White Man’s Burden but something very nearly as outdated: a labyrinthine heritage of weights and measures that would long since ...