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Argues that the history podcasts that reach our eyes and ears via the social Web tend to be predicated on the storytelling past, a form of e-history that seeks to activate the emotions and curiosity of the listener and that relies on human interest, whimsy, wonder and storytelling, as opposed to rigorous scholarly argument.
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Steinhauer, J. (2022). The Storytelling Past. In: History, Disrupted. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85117-0_8
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