FIGURES

1.1 Abandoned sites such as this are a reminder of the labor required for

archives to maintain their integrity 13

3.1 The permanent Hungarian exhibition, The Citizen Betrayed, Block 18,

Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, in which the wall covering of the entryway has been specially treated to smell “aged” 22

4.1 Rifles and other American Civil War reenactment equipment arrayed between battles at the 150th anniversary of the Battle of

Gettysburg in 2013 27

4.2Artillery crew reenactors engulfed in smoke at the 2005 Battle of

Waterloo, Belgium 28

5.1 Historical dance expert, Stuart Marsden (center back), rehearses with

dancers and one of the program’s hosts, Alistair Sooke (center left), for the Regency ball in Pride and Prejudice: Having a Ball (2013), a documentary produced by Optomen with the BBC 32

5.2Performing a cotillion in Pride and Prejudice: Having a Ball (2013) 33

8.1 VanessaAgnew, Refugee Plaque, 2016, granite, brass flashing 48

11.1 Anglo-Saxon reenactors taking a break from the Battle of

Hastings in 2006 58

12.1 Female reenactors in Victorian undergarments in Channel 4’s

1900 House 64

13.1 Silent film Natur und Liebe in the Pfahlbau Museum, Unteruhldingen

1926, premiered Ufa 1927, Berlin 68

13.2 National Socialist exhibition Lebendige Vorzeit (Living Past), Technical University of Berlin, 1937, of the Reich’s League for German Prehistory 69

13.3 Steinzeit, das Experiment: Leben wie vor 5000Jahren 70

13.4 Roman reenactment at the Unteruhldingen Museum, conducted by

experimental archaeologist Markus Junkelmann in 2009 72

14.1 In the Danish World War II reenactment context, the group

“Regimentet” is considered highly expert due to their convincing representation of German Wehrmacht soldiers in Denmark, 1942—1943 77

16.1 Screenshot from the World War II-themed first-person shooter (FPS)

game Call of Duty WWII 86

16.2 The mixed-reality game A Breathtaking Journey, as showcased during

the Dutch VR Days 87

17.1 Mama Alto, gender transcendent jazz singer and cabaret diva 91

17.2 Women reenacting at Colonial Williamsburg 92

20.1 Extra-illustration prints of the Abbey of St.

in a Tour Through Part of Normandy by Andrew Coltee Ducarel 103

21.1 The Dolmetsch family in costume outside Jesses, Haslemere, c.1919 108

23.1 Tame Iti shooting the New Zealand flag in 2005 116

24.1 Screenshot from Follow the North Star, a participatory museum theater experience that recreates some of the conditions faced by fugitive slaves in Indiana as they sought freedom in the North, Conner Prairie,

Indiana 123

25.1 Relief depicting Saint George, 11th century, faφade of St. Mark’s

Basilica,Venice 127

27.1 Video stills from Chris Marker, The Last Bolshevik, 2003 135

29.1 Panorama 1453, History Museum, Istanbul 145

29.2 Panorama 1453, History Museum, Istanbul 145

30.1 Karen Zusman, Hasidim Post Sukkah at Coney Island 148

32.1 Kane’s snow globe, one of the most brilliant encapsulations

of nostalgia 159

34.1 Souvenir of the Oxford historical pageant: in aid of the Radcliffe

Infirmary, Oxford Eye Hospital, etc.

34.2 Group of cast members from the Pageant and Masque, wearing

colonial and American Indian costumes 166

34.3 “The Star of Ethiopia” to celebrate the XIII amendment... October

11, 13, and 15, 1915 [Washington, DC] Goins printing co. 1344,You

Street N. W. [1915] 167

35.1 A medieval forging workshop at reenactment festival Beorg Wic 170

36.1 Lourdes Cave with the figure of Our Lady 174

36.2 The Temple Mount in Jerusalem 175

37.1 Cannon Hall Napoleonic Reenactment Day, 27 August 2009 180

38.1 A member of the Australian reenactment group The Huscarls

demonstrates the Viking-age craft of tablet-weaving 184

39.1 The author at work: voyaging to observe the Transit ofVenus at Lord

Howe Island in 2012, on board the replica of HMB Endeavour 189

40.1 Participants in The 1855 Lager Beer Riot Dodgeball Reenactment

and Beer Tasting, Pocket Guide to Hell 194

44.1 Actors at the Tower of London role-playing Queen Victoria and

Prince Albert 207

46.1 Hagesandros, Athenedoros, and Polydoros, Laocoon and his sons, marble

copy of a Hellenistic original ca. 200 bc 214

46.2 A screenshot from the documentary short Nazi VR (2017) shows

a mashup image of the defendant being tried as an accessory to mass murder 216

47.1 Cheers to Sarajevo, 2017 221