Contents
1. Introduction: Everyday Life, Nostalgia and the National Past
2. Trafficking in History
3. Coming Back to the Shores of Albion:
The Secret England of Mary Butts (1890-1937)
4. A Blue Plaque for the Labour Movement?
Some Political Meanings of the National Past
5. Falling Back Together in the Nineteen Eighties:
The Continuing Voyage of the Mary Rose
6. Moving House in a Welfare State
7. The Ghosting of the Inner City
Afterword:
Everyday Life and the Aura of the Modern Past