How to make a passport! The concept of being under one ruler’s protection, while in the lands of another, has probably existed since rulers and lands were first invented. The earliest mention of an object we might recognize as a passport appears in the Bible, in the often overlooked book of Nehemiah. It was in the early 20th century that passports, as we know them today, began to be used. The first modern British passport was the product of the British Nationality and Status Aliens Act 1914. It consisted of a single page, folded into eight and was held together …