When Did Passports Become a Thing? (Short Animated Documentary)

International Travel requires a passport but when did this first start? When were passports, as we know them today, introduced? Find out in this short and simple animated documentary.

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Sources:

The Curious Life of the Lowly Passport by Karl E. Meyer

Tourism and the Development of the Modern British Passport, 1814—1858 by Martin Anderson