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Papers

(The median citation count of Rethinking History is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Lepanto or Little Algiers? Public history and the cultural politics of commemoration in modern Greece	14
The historian is present: live interactive documentary as collaborative history	11
Traces of existence: public monuments and the dead	10
History, Melancholy, and the Anthropocene: H. G. Wells on ‘Mind at the End of its Tether’	8
How the fictional representation of historical characters can serve to justify historical events and actions: Tipu Sultan’s Tiger	7
Is Paul Ricoeur still relevant to the philosophy of history?	4
Rethinking the historical film form: trauma, temporality and indirect representation in historical essay films	4
A ‘wicked problem’: rethinking history education in the Anthropocene	4
Historiography as readymade	3
Between agency and event: The Book of Job as a Greek Tragedy	3
Two concepts of apocalypse and apocalyptic history today	3
‘Tawaifnama’ or The Courtesan Chronicles	3
The notes, the markings: along the margins of the years	3
The cabinet of Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe: an essay in the biographical distillation of affinities	2
Public history and transmedia storytelling for conflicting narratives	2
Boardgaming after the fall of Kabul: player and designer (re)engagement with A Distant Plain	2
Are there historical lessons across time and space? The ethics of ‘never again’ in European history teaching	2
The play’s only part of the thing: audience response to pastiche historical drama	2
Judging voluntariness: abortion assistance around 1900	2
“Uses of the past” in applied history methodology: the case of trust-building for public institutions in Belgium	2
Using fiction to tell mad stories: a journey into historical imagination and empathy	2
Amnesias and memories of imperialism: analysis of the restitutive policies of colonialism in Spain	1
The state of voluntariness? (Re)migration policy in post-fascist Germany between denazification, decolonization and development	1
Disappearance and archive fevers in film: the rewriting of history and practical uses of the past	1
The reality of words. Martin L. Davies and Jean Paul	1

The open future in peril: the Anthropocene and the political agent of humanistically oriented historiography	1
Missing from the record: historians, archival research and underwater munitions	1
To think a little of you: a paragraph about Rena Merrill	1
Intimate constellations: photos of African American-German intimacies in the long postwar period	1
Toward the logical structure of historical narrations: an interview with Paul A. Roth	1
Textuality as amplification: reconsidering close reading and distant reading in cultural history	1
The exemplifying past: a philosophy of history	1
Natalie Zemon Davis in China: global historiographical exchanges as cross-cultural engagement	1
Artificial history? Inquiring ChatGPT on historiography	1
Editorial	1
Digital visual history: historiographic curation using digital technologies	1
KNOWING IS SEEING: distance and proximity in affective virtual reality history	1
Enlivening the English Civil Wars through Historical Fictions	1
The trials of John Stamford: gay travel, sexual harm, and Spartacus International Gay Guide	0
Complexity and materiality in representations of reality	0
Patriarchal power as a conceptual tool for gender history	0
George Saunders’Lincoln in the Bardo: semiotic explorations of Abraham Lincoln in American cultural memory	0
Reflections on art, history and the Chilean estallido social : an essay about making history (unfinished)	0
“The dead do not negotiate”: Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light , and Britain’s obsession with history	0
‘I don’t even trust now what I read in history books’: family history and the future of co-production and collaboration	0
Militarism in medievalism: the Prince of Thieves video game and the Gulf War	0
Just a matter of time: reviewing temporality in Australian historiography	0
Material records of the Anthropocene: a surface-oriented approach	0
Towards historical news values: Czech news media between past knowledge and current histotainment	0
Visualising memory: filmmaking as research method to engage with China’s wartime past	0
The ethics of narrative: a readers’ dialogue	0
Beyond truth: an epistemic normativity for historiography	0
‘I place form before content’ – an interview in 2009 with Alun Munslow	0
The politicisation of historical memory on Twitter: “Positive antisemitism” in the Holocaust debate in Poland	0
Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century	0
The Anthropocene as a historical hyperobject	0
Insurgent memory, post-imperial governance, and change: reassessing the truth about Portugal’s colonial history	0
Dissolving boundaries: work, activity, and voluntariness in digitized capitalism	0
Black lives and the ‘archival pulse’: the murder of Neil “Tommy” Marsh and other stories	0
Photography, sport and the hegemony of men: a material(-)discursive perspective	0
‘And then move on …’ the context and intentions behind the Greenland reconciliation commission	0
How not to construe strong constructivism in philosophy of history	0
Voluntariness as state building. How vaccination programs changed German society and vice versa—1870s to 2020s	0
Trauma, modernism, realism: a genealogy, the middle voice	0
Global history in two chronotopes: time, identity and the practical past in Nagasaki, Japan, 1990 and 2006	0
What is close reading? An exploration of a methodology	0
Urbane Künste Ruhr and its cultural interventions in the remaking of the Ruhr region in Germany	0
Grasping the scale of events: Voices from Chernobyl between the historical and the monumental	0
Dance and romance across racial boundaries: partnering with Filipino migrants in Seattle and Alaska in the Early 20th Century	0
Historical futures and the pull of the past: on the poverty of imagination	0
Shakespeare was a Woman and Other Heresies	0
Exploring fishery history in game form: ‘Never again April 18!’	0
Rethinking oral history and tradition: an indigenous perspective	0
Beyond the endpoint: the report of the Belgian commission on colonial injustice and the wider tapestry of truth initiatives	0
The canon in history	0

Un-disabling the King: Richard III and the ‘New Evidence’	0
Narrative, emplotment, power: on agency and the environment	0
Being alongside: the practice of collaborative public history	0
We are history: historical affect, memory and militancy among revolutionary youth in postwar Iran	0
The other side of the linguistic turn: theory of history and the negotiation of humanity	0
Second thoughts: on artistic forensic reconstructions	0
Shapes and functions of historical events	0
‘Undeveloped property’: Mad Men , crisis, and real estate	0
Writing the concubine: Anne Boleyn, Eustace Chapuys and popular historiography in Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall trilogy	0
Anthropocenic historical knowledge: promises and pitfalls	0
Metamorphoses of the past: a study of Primo Levi´sThe Periodic Table	0
`They are also victims of the war´: heritage narratives of the Nazis and their victims in Finland	0
Metafiction and the study of history: makerly knowledge in the archive	0
Functional stupidity and the modern knowledge condition: Martin Davies on cognitive psychopathology	0
History on the margins: truths, struggles and the bureaucratic research economy in Colombia, 2016–2023	0
Humor as (graphic) resilience and revenge against Holocaust perpetrators in Miriam Katin’s work	0
Transmedia history	0
Recovering, reimagining or reinventing Elizabeth Macarthur in speculative biography	0
Martin L. Davies & the specter of history	0
Rebellious academia – the potential of creative practice research. Collaborative experimental provocation	0
History in politics: a “battle” of identity historical narratives between Chinese and Anglophone academia	0
Fall of a tyrant, or heroic last stand? Tipu Sultan and the moral undercurrent in historiography	0
The Swedish Truth and Reconciliation Commission for Tornedalians, Kvens and Lantalaiset: a Commissioner’s perspective	0
Sense and historicity: rethinking history with Martin L. Davies	0
Editorial	0
A buried river, an emerging crisis, a cumulative tale	0
The politics of voluntariness in modern history: introduction	0
Buying sex across the Iron Curtain: Western Men and transactional intimacy in State-Socialist Hungary during the long 1960s	0
Pietistic atheism and the modern breakthrough: on the narrative culture of secularity	0
Polish Cinderella becomes a playmate. Erotic capital, mobility and the end of the Cold War	0
A film treatment in ‘Layers’: a new approach to creative historical writing through screenwriting innovation	0
Waste and historicity in the Anthropocene	0
‘So dense a commingling of the improbable and the mundane!’: writing Palestinian history in a magical realist key	0
Prisoners of the archives: privacy, identity and the history of incarceration	0
Transients, punks and hobos: rethinking the history of train hopping through experimental film	0
Intertemporality in Spencer (2021): a methodology for the analysis of time and the contemporary	0
War, transgenerational memory and documentary film: mediated and institutional memory in historical culture	0
Reflections: on writing and being written about	0
The histories we tell: historical consciousness and student protests in a Chilean public high school	0
How might Indigenous decolonization agendas inform Anthropocene historiography?	0
Deep history and deep listening: Indigenous knowledges and the narration of deep pasts	0
Rethinking medieval margins and marginality	0
Historical irrealism: Paul A. Roth and the epistemic value of narrative explanation	0
Kibbutz Buchenwald: history and fiction	0
Making memories: creative research and sensory history	0
Historical truth as a tool for decolonisation: Cira Pallí-asperó and Tine Destrooper in conversation with Olivia Umurerwa Rutazibwa	0
The problem of teleological history education and the possibilities of a multispecies, multiscalar, and non-continuous history	0
Creating Cromwell: an analysis of the historical novel’s position and potentiality through a study of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall trilogy	0
Metamodern memory: on Blade Runner , then and now	0
Source criticism for cultural history	0
Telling the past – the history of victimization: a post-conflict reading of Sorayya Khan’s Noor	0
A borderless polemic? Probing the limits of a transnational approach to historicism	0
Source genres in history writing	0
The belonging in abject communities: a new understanding through sewerage ghost towns	0
Thefin de siècleand the multiple temporalities of historical periodization	0
Venturing beyond Koselleck’sErwartungshorizont: on the category of the utopian	0
What does voluntariness do to participation? Mitmachen in New Deal America and National Socialist Germany, 1933−1945	0
Historizing remediation: how games represent history through media	0
Disciplinary commitments of history and reading practices of historical writing	0
Fraught spaces: the risks, challenges and failures of collaborative public histories	0
Memory, materiality, and trauma: revisiting the parlour floor, St. Albans, 1381	0
‘The point is, history sells’. Martin Davies’s political critique of history and heritage	0
The design of The Troubles : simulating terror in Northern Ireland	0
‘You are, like, so woke’:Dickinsonand the anachronistic turn in historical drama	0
Apprehensive vigilance: Martin L. Davies, philosophy, and the ecological imperative of knowledge	0
Reclaiming History in the British Museum entranceway: imperialism, patronage and female, queer and black legacies	0
Experiments in history: the voice of Bondi	0
Burial	0
Approaches to textual sources in cultural history	0
History as translation / anachronism as synchronism	0
The role of empathy in bridging Western and Indigenous knowledges: Dominick LaCapra and Ailton Krenak	0