Few academic disciplines have undergone the academic scrutiny that history has since the end of the Second World War. A growing consensus among historians has emerged to the effect that, if history is to be revitalized, it will require recognition of the disconnect between popular and professional, as well as an embracing of innovative methods of exploring the past, such as re-enactment. When most people think of re-enactment, their minds run to simulations of great battles, undertaken by passionate amateurs who can appear to be preoccupied more with the authenticity of a weapon or costume than with the meaning of the events they recreate. However recent scholars use the term to include everything from living history museums, technical reconstructions and 'nostalgia' toys to literature, film, photography, video games, television shows, pageants, parades and, reenactment's most ubiquitous instantiation, social and cyber groups devoted to historical performance. For the purposes of this article, Peter Farrugia uses the term "re-enactment" in a more restricted sense, to refer to a social and personal re-creation of history, based on an exercise of historical imagination and bodily mimicry of certain historical circumstances and how he created an introductory interdisciplinary course around the term between 2000 and 2014.