Cover -- Consuming History -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I The popular historian -- ‘Public’ history -- 1 The public historian, the historian in public -- 2 Popular history in print -- 3 The historian in popular culture -- Part II Enfranchisement, ownership and consumption -- Serious leisure and enfranchisement -- 4 The everyday historical -- 5 Genealogy -- 6 Digital history -- Part III Performing and playing history -- Seeing and believing: re-enactment culture -- 7 Historical re-enactment -- 8 Recycling culture and re-enactment/cultural re-enactment -- 9 History games -- Part IV History on television -- Democratisation and deregulation -- 10 Contemporary historical documentary -- 11 Reality History -- Part V The ‘historical’ as cultural genre -- The genres of history -- 12 Historical television -- 13 Historical fi lm -- 14 Imagined histories -- Part VI Artefact and interpretation -- New theories of the museum -- 15 Museums and physical encounters with the past -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Index