Introduction: What is hands on media history?
John Ellis and Nick Hall

Part I: Media Histories

1 Why hands on history matters

John Ellis

2 Bringing the living back to life: what happens when we re-enact the recent past?

Nick Hall

3 A blind date with the past: transforming television documentary practice into a research method
Amanda Murphy

4 (De)Habituation Histories: How to re-sensitize media historians
Andreas Fickers and Annie van den Oever

5 (Un)certain Ghosts: Rephotography and Historical Images
Mary Agnes Krell　

Part II: User Communities

6 Photography Against the Anthropocene: the Anthotype as a Call for Action
Kristof Vrancken

7 On the Performance of Playback for Dead Media Devices
Matthew Hockenberry and Jason LaRiviere

8 The Archaeology of the Walkman: Audience Perspectives and the Roots of Mobile Media Intimacy
Maruša Pušnik

9 Extended Play: Hands On with Forty Years of English Amusement Arcades

Alex Wade

10 Enriching 'hands on history' through community dissemination: a case study of the Pebble Mill Project
Vanessa Jackson　

Part III: Labs, Archives, and Museums

11 The Media Archaeology Lab as Platform for Undoing and Reimagining Media History
Lori Emerson

12 Reflections and Reminiscences: tactile encounters and participatory research with vintage media technology in the museum

Christian Hviid Mortensen and Lise Kapper

13 A Vision in Bakelite: Exploring the aesthetic, material and operational potential of the Bush TV22
Elinor Groom

14 Hands on Circuits: Preserving the Semantic Surplus of Circuit-Level Functionality with Programmable Logic Devices

Fabian Offert