Following the Scilly naval disaster of 1707, which lost four British Navy ships and almost 2000 sailors at sea, Parliament decided sailors needed a better navigational tool. The British government ...

Central Cee and Doja Cat have been announced as headliners for Longitude’s 2024 festival in Marlay Park in Dublin. Other acts performing at the two-day festival include Becky Hill, 21 Savage, Belters ...

We're suckers for a bit of nostalgia – especially when it comes to music. And when one of our favourite Irish festivals is in the mix, we're extra-giddy at the idea of looking back and wallowing in ...

Have you ever heard of John Harrison? Harrison saw a problem and had a driving vision on how to correct it. In the late 1600s, more than 200 years after Columbus reached the New World, there were many ...

For those of us with no real navigation experience, encountering longitude and latitude coordinates is usually the result of some hiccup using Google Maps. 40.722272, -73.994194? What? Where the heck ...

The Prime Meridian is the imaginary line running between the North and South Poles that's used to indicate 0° longitude. It passes through Greenwich in southeast London, and is therefore sometimes ...

Right now if you want to know where you are, your smartphone map will tell you instantly. But these technologies only exist because of the efforts of 18th century geographers, explorers, astronomers ...