Popular archaeology is a heterogeneous phenomenon. By focusing on the German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann, Egyptian mummies, and the ruin complex Great Zimbabwe in fictional and factual texts, Susanne Duesterberg maps the popular reception of archaeology in Victorian and Edwardian Britain. Her new interdisciplinary and comparative view on different archaeologies reflected in contemporary sociocultural concerns, along with her focus on popular culture, identity, gender, postcolonial theory, and memory studies, helps this book appeal broadly to experts and the general public.

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? How were class, gender, age, religion, and space debated? How were academic and popular approaches to the past linked to the materiality of the medium? Lechner's focus is on the evangelical Leisure Hour, with comparisons to the London Journal, Good Words, and Cornhill. The study's approach to the serialization of history in text and image combines periodical studies...