Books by Patrick Wright:

On Living in an Old Country: The National Past in Contemporary Britain

With drawings by Andrzej Krauze
Published by Verso, 1985 (hardback and paperback)
Second impression (paperback only): 1991
Patrick Wright: On Living in an Old Country: The National Past in Contemporary Britain

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