{"id":15098,"date":"2022-06-10T12:47:44","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T10:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=209498"},"modified":"2022-06-10T13:05:08","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T11:05:08","slug":"has-britain-always-looked-backwards","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/has-britain-always-looked-backwards\/","title":{"rendered":"Has Britain always looked backwards?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Elinor Evans\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Friday, 10 June 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>From the \u201cBlitz spirit\u201d invoked in the Covid-19 pandemic, to the 16th-century sense that a lost greatness needed to be recovered, historian Hannah Rose Woods reveals how nostalgia for a bygone era is nothing new. Speaking to Elinor Evans about her new book Rule, Nostalgia, she discusses the various ways our ancestors have looked back at our national past.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"&quot;wp-audio-shortcode&quot;\" id=\"&quot;audio-209498-1&quot;\" preload=\"&quot;none&quot;\" style=\"&quot;width:\" controls=\"&quot;controls&quot;\"><source type=\"&quot;audio\/mpeg&quot;\" src=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/06\/NostalgiaBritain-2b56772.mp3?_=1&quot;\"\/><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/06\/NostalgiaBritain-2b56772.mp3&quot;\">https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/06\/NostalgiaBritain-2b56772.mp3<\/a><\/audio><p><strong>Hannah Rose Woods is the author of <em>Rule, Nostalgia: A Backwards History of Britain<\/em> (Ebury Publishing, 2022)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul><li><a href=\"\/\/uk.bookshop.org\/books\/rule-nostalgia-a-backwards-history-of-britain\/9780753558737&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;nofollow noopener noreferrer\" noopener=\"\" noreferrer=\"\"><strong>Buy now on Bookshop.org<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Rule-Nostalgia-Backwards-History-Britain-ebook\/dp\/B09CK17MZM?tag=bbchistory045-21&amp;ascsubtag=historyextra-0&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;sponsored&quot; noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Buy now on Amazon<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/www.waterstones.com\/book\/rule-nostalgia\/hannah-rose-woods\/9780753558737&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;nofollow noopener noreferrer\" noopener=\"\" noreferrer=\"\"><strong>Buy now on Waterstones<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Elinor Evans Published: Friday, 10 June 2022 at 12:00 am From the \u201cBlitz spirit\u201d invoked in the Covid-19 pandemic, to the 16th-century sense that a lost greatness needed to be recovered, historian Hannah Rose Woods reveals how nostalgia for a bygone era is nothing new. 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