Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The other day I was getting ready to travel and rummaging through a drawer looking for an old leather wallet in which ...

Oh hello! I’m just working out where I am by using this world, er…globe to give it its proper name. A globe is a model of planet Earth, showing how it looks from space. This one shows all the ...

There are many reasons to be proud to be British; Wimbledon, the Cornish pasty, the North face of Ben Nevis and Cuillen ridge, music, comedy, the basking shark and the NHS spring to mind. There are ...

Why are almost all modern maps the same way up? Caroline Williams explores the intriguing history that led to this orientation – and discovers why it shapes how we see the world in more ways than we ...

The way we map the world is in dire need of an update as the uproar over Google's failure to label Palestine on maps shows Google sparked an outcry last week after reports emerged that it had ...

Add your data to our interactive map to help us chart the benefits that the housing sector brings to British society. Housing associations, councils and arm’s-length management organisations (ALMOs) ...