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ERIN BELL has a PhD in History from the University of York, UK, and is an AHRC Research Fellow working on the Televising History project in the Faculty of Media & Humanities at the University of Lincoln, UK.

ANN GRAY is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Lincoln, UK, and Director of the Televising History research project. She is the author of Video Playtime: The Gendering of a Leisure Technology (1992) and Research Practice for Cultural Studies (2003).

List of Figures	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. viii
Notes on Contributors	p. ix
Introduction: History on Television in Europe: The Past Two Decades	p. 1
Perspectives
'Once Upon a Timeà': Visual Design and Documentary Openings	p. 13
History on Television: The Problem of Sources	p. 28
Combatting 'A Message without a Code': Writing the 'History' Documentary	p. 42
Contexts of Production: Commissioning History	p. 59
Beyond the Witness: The Layering of Historical Testimonies on British Television	p. 77
Televised History and National Identity
Staging Historical Leaders on French Television: The Example of Napoleon Bonaparte	p. 95
Landscape and Memory: British Televisual Representations of the Battle of the Somme	p. 107
Mediated Collective Memory and the Political Process Towards Democracy in Spain: An Analysis of the Spanish TV Historical Documentary Series La Transición	p. 122
Televised History, Memory and Identity
Television Fiction: A Domain of Memory Retelling the Past on Dutch Television	p. 139
Facing the Truth, Pain and Reconciliation	p. 152
Women and War	p. 165
History in Popular Television Drama: The Flemish Past in Wij	p. 179
History Programming: Form, Genre, Technique
'I feel completely beautiful for the first time in my life': Bodily Re-enactment and Reality Documentary	p. 193
(Re)constructing Biographies: German Television Docudrama and the Historical Biography	p. 207
Flog It!: Nostalgia and Lifestyle on British Daytime Television	p. 221
Who Do You Think You Are?: Family History and Memory on British Television	p. 234
Conclusion: Broader Themes and Televisualization	p. 248
Author Index	p. 256
Subject Index	p. 260
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