Humour can be used as a ?weapon? or as a means of coping with problematic historical events, especially in times of war and crisis. The book presents examples from different cultures (Russia, Europe,
Doris Lechner examines the contribution of illustrated family magazines to Victorian historical culture. How, by whom, for whom, and with which intentions was history used within this popular medium?
Popular archaeology is a heterogeneous phenomenon: By focussing on the German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann, Egyptian mummies and the ruin complex Great Zimbabwe in fictional and factual texts, Su
One tends to associate history with serious modes of presentation rather than with humorous ones. Yet Clio also smiles and laughs out loud: Comic renderings of historical events and figures have made
