Historical Women on Television

<p> Queen Victoria in <I>Bewitched</I>. Harriet Tubman in <I>Timeless</I>. Amelia Earhart in <I>Star Trek: Voyager</I>. Historical women appear regularly in televised period dramas and biopics but sometimes they also turn up in the strangest places transported to worlds future or past via space operas sitcoms and time-travel series. This book covers 120 historical women on scripted television shining a light on the representation of women in history through their representation on the small screen. The inspiring fascinating and sometimes heartbreaking stories of these women come to life in this book's entries which sort fact from televised fiction but also serve as a starting point for further investigation by TV fans history buffs students teachers and scholars.</p>