{"id":11091,"date":"2022-02-16T11:53:19","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T10:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=200322"},"modified":"2022-02-16T12:08:09","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T11:08:09","slug":"british-identity-in-50-documents","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/british-identity-in-50-documents\/","title":{"rendered":"British identity in 50 documents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Emily Briffett\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Wednesday, 16 February 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Dominic Selwood chronicles Britain\u2019s past through a diverse \u2013 and sometimes unexpected \u2013 selection of historical documents, from birthday invites and <a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/modern\/when-was-valentines-day-first-celebrated-cards-history-saint-valentine\/&quot;\">Valentine\u2019s Day<\/a> letters, to musical scores and shipping forecasts. 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