The Metric Martyrs

There was pressure to adopt the metric system, thanks in part to napoleon. But there's a huge difference between something being imposed on a country by external forces and a country voluntarily choosing what's in their best rest. And this continued from the sixties onwards, you know, pretty uncontroversially. You know, we we went decimal in coinage, a company with the exact year. That was in it, in many ways, an even bigger change than units of measurement. Yet, no one now is going, let's bringt back pound shillings and pence. Although, actually, i say that, i'm sure people do ot bring back poundsshillings and