Horrible Histories
Horrible Histories is a TV show on CBBC. The program has been available since 2024. A total of 62 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in September 2024.
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Horrible Histories
Horrible Histories presents the sometimes-ludicrous story of Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot.
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Legendary Lioness Jill Scott joins Rattus to look at the history of the beautiful game, including Shakespearean mentions, women’s football being banned and coffins on the pitch!
Jo Brand joins Rattus for a special NHS 75th birthday show, looking at how it was created, some of its weirder moments, and what life was like before it was created.
In honour of Father’s Day, Horrible Histories takes a look at some of history’s daftest dads, featuring Henry VIII, Charles Dickens, William the Conqueror and Joseph Stalin!
Series 3
Historical sketch show. Including an annoying French prankster from the Middle Ages, and what happens when Queen Elizabeth I needs the toilet.
Series 8
History tells of great minds coming together to achieve great things. It also tells of idiots combining to make an unholy mess. HH looks at some of the best and worst collaborations!
The Horrible History of (sometimes literally) dressing to kill. Henry VIII has beef over whose armour is best and Louis XV dresses as a hedge.
Series 10
From warring brothers to farting mothers, Horrible Histories presents some of the biggest, best and worst rivalries throughout time. Guest starring Rosie Jones, Fred Sirieix and Rob Rinder.
Series 8
A celebration of some of history’s greatest females, including Spartan Queen Gorgo terrorising Historical Love Island, supergroup The Tudor Queens, and the original Wonder Women.
A look at how World War II played out on the home front, featuring Churchill's secret loo, the heroic 'ATA Girls' and German spies being caught out by their delicious sausages.
Dara O Briain joins Rattus for a show marking the 1969 moon landings. The first use of rocket power, the Space Race, and poo floating in the Apollo 10 cockpit - it’s all here!
The history of our relationship with animals - Charles Darwin presents Yummy Planet, Elizabeth I’s menagerie has some 'lion trouble', and farting fish almost start a nuclear war.
Queen Victoria lovingly forces several of her children to go on historical first dates, Leopold Mozart retires his 18-year-old daughter aged 18, and the Brontes sing about sisterhood.
Series 7
Sketch comedy series. Featuring everything you need to know about history's most famous family. Including a never-before-seen sketch.
Series 10
From how Henry VIII had the most comfortable poo possible, to finding out which bit of his house Charles Dickens called The Demon - take a tour of horrible homes through history.
Series 8
Fred Sirieix guides Rattus through the Horrible History of Manners, including the benefits of not holding farts in and Puritan dating,. And Jane Austen visits Historical Love Island.
Featuring Victorian fake news, paparazzi, and camera men strapped to the front of moving trains, Queen Victoria shows you how her subjects invented and became obsessed with films!
Series 7
Sketch comedy series. A guide to ancient civilizations, featuring new sketches about Alexander the Great's first kiss.
Sketch comedy series. Horrible Histories presents a collection of some of history's finest songs, as Rattus attempts to put together his own festival.
Sketch comedy series. A look at the hideous history of health, from the invention of toilet paper to the healthy origins of the cornflake.