British-American System of Units - Resources

British-American System of Units

General
- How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement. Russ Rowlet. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- A Dictionary of Weights and Measures for the British Isles: The Middle Ages to the 20th century. Ronald Edward Zupko. American Philosophical Society (1985).
- Metrology and the State: Science, Revenue, and Commerce. William J. Ashworth. Science. Vol. 306 No. 5700 (19 November 2004): 1314–1317.
Anti-metric system
- British Weights and Measures Association. Welcome to the world of real measurement. The BWMA exists to protect and promote British weights and measures, and to oppose compulsory use of the metric system. (Formerly at footrule.org)
- freedom2measure.org. Our way of measuring is under threat. If you are comfortable with miles, feet and inches, tons, pounds and ounces, gallons and quarts, that is enough, you do not have to justify yourself. Metricators are trying to get rid of our way of measuring.
Video on demand
- CBC Digital Archives
  - Canadians rebel against metric system. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (1982). Throughout the 1970s, the move to metric had some opposition — but that was nothing compared to the full-scale metric rebellion hitting the country by 1982.