Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Editorial 2
3. Contents 5
4. Popular History Now and Then 7
5. Professional and Popular Historians 13
6. The Bull of Nineveh 31
7. Growing Up with History in the Victorian Periodical Press 55
8. Nineteenth-Century Magazines and Historical Cultures in Britain and Germany 73
9. The Opening of the Archives and Its Limits 105
10. Wars and ›Little‹ Heroes 123
11. Popular History, Gender and Nationalism 149
12. Creating Popular Music History 169
13. »Quick, accessible to everyone and delightful« 185
14. Don Juan de Austria in European Historical Culture 203
15. Shifting Imageries 231
16. Seeing the Past 1800 – 1900 – 2000 263
17. Afterword: Past, Present, Future 281
18. List of Contributors 297
19. Index 301