List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: From Realism to the Affective Turn: An Agenda; I.McCalman & P.A.Pickering '... Just As It Would Have Been in 1861': Stuttering Colonial Beginnings in ABC's Outback House; A.Schwarz 'Recreating Chaos': Jeremy Deller's The Battle Of Orgreave; K.Kitamura On Being A Mobile Monument: Historical Reenactments And Commemorations; S.Gapps What Should We Do About Slavery? Slavery, Abolition and Public History; J.Walvin Reenactment and Neo-Realism; J.Brewer Textual Realism and Reenactment; J.Walker 'No Witnesses. No Leads. No Problems': The Reenactment of Crime and Rebellion; P.A.Pickering R.G. Collingwood, Historical Reenactment and the Early Music Revival; K.Bowan 'From Wigwam to White Lights': Popular Culture, Politics, and the Performance of Native North American Identity in the Era of Assimilationism; R.B.Phillips & T.Nicks Mimic Toil: Eighteenth-Century Preconditions for the Modern Historical Reenactment; S.During Loutherbourg's Simulations: Reenactment and Realism in Late-Georgian Britain; I.McCalman