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Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Remembering the Covid-19 pandemic -- Chapter 1: Anxiety -- Chapter 2: Birdsong -- Chapter 3: Cancellations -- Chapter 4: Clap for carers -- Chapter 5: Deliveries -- Chapter 6: Fear -- Chapter 7: Funerals -- Chapter 8: Furlough -- Chapter 9: Gratitude -- Chapter 10: Grief -- Chapter 11: Guilt -- Chapter 12: Home schooling -- Chapter 13: Hope -- Chapter 14: Key workers -- Chapter 15: Lockdown projects -- Chapter 16: Luck -- Chapter 17: (new) Normal -- Chapter 18: PE (physical education) -- Chapter 19: Shielding -- Chapter 20: Shops -- Chapter 21: Stay alert -- Chapter 22: Stay apart -- Chapter 23: Stay home -- Chapter 24: (dog) Walking -- Chapter 25: WhatsApp -- Chapter 26: Working from home -- Chapter 27: Zoom -- Conclusion: Presenting everyday life -- Notes -- References -- General Index -- Index of Diarists.

This paper draws on a study of town twinning in Britain since 1945 to engage with narratives of 'the new localism' and 'the new politics of scale'. It argues that town twinning is often used in technical assistance programmes such as the UK Government's Know How Fund and various schemes of the Commonwealth Local Government Forum. 'Fast policy' is a concept that can be usefully applied to these programmes and the broader field of interurban networking, urban policy mobility, and policy transfer. Town twinning plays an active yet overlooked role in fast policy. The paper also argues that town twinning is part of a longer history of bottom-up localism that includes the political arguments of John Stuart Mill, at least two moments of twentieth-century municipal internationalism, the municipal foreign policy movement of the 1980s, and the community development movement of the last three decades. This longer history suggests sources of localism other than statecraft, and problematises the conceptualisation of power and periodisation of history found in regulation theories of devolution.

AbstractIn a context of global moves towards decentralization and neighbourhood governance, this article focuses on neighbourhood governance in Nanjing, China. We draw on interviews and observations in 32 neighbourhoods to examine how neighbourhood governance plays out in different neighbourhoods. We identify and describe four modes of governance—collective consumption, service privatization, civic provision and state‐sponsored—to argue that neighbourhood governance develops on the ground in diverse and complex ways, necessitating scholars to be cautious when seeking to generalize about it at the scale of the city, let alone that of the nation‐state or the globe. We argue that relationships between actors are important units of analysis when considering how effective governance is achieved in different neighbourhoods; diversity and complexity in neighbourhood governance partly reflect the role of the state in these relationships. In turn the role of the state partly reflects processes of policy evolution in particular neighbourhoods.

The 2016 EU Referendum has renewed the focus of historians and social scientists on Britain's historical relationship with Europe as they aim to develop a better understanding of 'the road to Brexit'. The development of Euroscepticism in Britain has often been approached from an elite perspective, with a focus on the conflicting ideas and arguments between politicians, political parties, and the media. This article builds on existing studies by focusing on popular attitudes to Europe during the early 1980s. We analyse responses to a 'special directive' issued by the Mass Observation Project in the autumn of 1982 to mark the ten-year anniversary of Britain joining the European Economic Community (EEC). Reading this previously overlooked material for categories, storylines, and other cultural resources, we identify four key grievances MO panellists shared as common-sense evaluations of Britain's membership of the EEC. We argue these grievances constituted a wider folk theory of Euroscepticism circulating in British society six years prior to Margaret Thatcher's Bruges speech and subsequent debates about further integration in the early 1990s. In developing this argument, we contribute a better understanding of the content and origins of popular Euroscepticism in the 1980s.