The present boom in popular history is not unprecedented. The contributions to this volume investigate peaks of historical interest which favour popular approaches from around 1800 to the present. They analyse the media, genres and institutions through which historical knowledge has been disseminated – from artefacts to the archive, from poetry to photography, from music to murals, and from periodicals to popular TV series. They ask how major traditions in the popular imagery of the past have evolved and changed over time. Cultural contexts covered in the book include Western and Southern Europe, the United States and West Africa. Contributors come from a range of disciplines, including history, literary and cultural studies, musicology as well as social and cultural anthropology.

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Table of contents
- Cover Popular History Now and Then
- Contents
- Popular History Now and Then: An Introduction
- Professional and Popular Historians: 1800 – 1900 – 2000
- The Bull of Nineveh: Antiquity and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Britain
- Growing Up with History in the Victorian Periodical Press
- Nineteenth-Century Magazines and Historical Cultures in Britain and Germany:Exploratory Notes on a Comparative Approach
- The Opening of the Archives and Its Limits: Contested Interests in »Tÿrol«
- Wars and ›Little‹ Heroes: Historical Topics in Popular Poetry Anthologies from the Nineteenth Century to the Present
- Popular History, Gender and Nationalism: Female Narratives of a National Myth
- Creating Popular Music History: The Barbershop Harmony Revival in the United States around 1940
- »Quick, accessible to everyone and delightful«: History and Art History in Popular Italian Magazines of the 1960s
- Don Juan de Austria in European Historical Culture: The Twentieth-Century Metamorphosis of a Popular Hero
- Shifting Imageries: Memory, Projectivity and the Experience of Violence in Northern Côte d’Ivoire
- Seeing the Past 1800 – 1900 – 2000: History as a Photo Album
- Afterword: Past, Present, Future
- List of Contributors
- Index
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