Campaign seeks 50 objects to ‘take the heat’ out of Englishness debate

Is chicken tikka masala one of the things that defines Englishness? Photograph: hsunny/Alamy

For some people it’s a Morris Minor, for others, a beach windbreak, chicken tikka masala or Magna Carta.

A new campaign is aiming to collect 50 objects that sum up Englishness in an effort to move the conversation away from reductive arguments over whether to hang a St George’s flag or not.