Chapter 1 From Realism to the Affective Turn: An Agenda

Chapter 2 ‘…Just as It would have been in 1861’: Stuttering Colonial Beginnings in ABC’s Outback House

Chapter 3 ‘Recreating Chaos’: Jeremy Deller’s The Battle of Orgreave

Chapter 4 On Being a Mobile Monument: Historical Reenactments and Commemorations

Chapter 5 What Should We Do about Slavery? Slavery, Abolition and Public History

Chapter 6 Reenactment and Neo-Realism

Chapter 8 ‘No Witnesses. No Leads. No Problems’: The Reenactment of Crime and Rebellion

Chapter 9 R. G. Collingwood, Historical Reenactment and the Early Music Revival

Chapter 10 ‘From Wigwam to White Lights’: Popular Culture, Politics, and the Performance of Native North American Identity in the Era of Assimilationism

Chapter 11 Mimic Toil: Eighteenth-Century Preconditions for the Modern Historical Reenactment

Chapter 12 Loutherbourg’s Simulations: Reenactment and Realism in Late-Georgian Britain