Horrible Histories
Horrible Histories is a TV show on CBBC. The program has been available since 2025. A total of 142 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in November 2026.
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Horrible Histories
Historical sketch show. Emperor Nero visits the victims of the Great Fire of Rome and some Crusaders attend a training course on how to fight weird monsters.
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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 4
Horrible Histories favourite Death, from 'Stupid Deaths', presents a show full of spooky highlights. We join him at home and get a look around as he reveals his creepiest moments.
Series 7
Everything you need to know about history's most famous family. Including a never-before-seen sketch.
Series 4
Historical sketch show. HHTV's war reporter Mike Peabody regrets his decision to cover the Norman Siege of Palermo, and the Pilgrim Fathers rap about Jamestown in America.
Historical sketch show. Henry VIII appears on a TV show hoping to raise money from his antique abbeys. Also, Charles Darwin sings about his theory of natural selection.
Historical sketch show. Dick Whittington pitches a movie about his life, and some German bomber pilots find an unfortunate use for a tourist guidebook to Britain.
Series 3
Savage Songs compilation. Featuring the hip-hop battle of the boasting Celts, pop superstar Cleopatra, rock rebel William Wallace, and more
Historical sketch show. The people of Strasbourg are afflicted with dance fever, and HHTV presenter Fearne Polyester reports from a bizarre Greek festival.
Series 7
Sketch comedy series. A guide to ancient civilizations, featuring new sketches about Alexander the Great's first kiss.
Series 3
Historical sketch show. The Vikings launch an advert, Queen Elizabeth I surprises her court with some very odd laws, and the Aztec priests sing their gruesome disco song.
Historical sketch show. Saxon king Ethelred the Unready suffers online bullying from the Vikings, and the suffragettes set the record straight in song.
Historical sketch show. Robert Walpole struggles to talk to England's German king and a Scottish sportsman attacks dead cows in the Highland Games.
Historical sketch show. Henry VIII promotes his all-meat, no-vegetables diet plan, and Admiral Nelson confuses everyone with his last words.
Historical sketch show. A Welsh prince from the Middle Ages has a very stupid death, and Queen Cleopatra sings about her reputation as a femme fatale.
Series 7
Sketch comedy series. Horrible Histories presents a collection of some of history's finest songs, as Rattus attempts to put together his own festival.
Series 3
Historical sketch show. A modern detective tries to solve a series of murders in Emperor Caligula's house, King George IV meets his dead relatives and other historical hijinks.
Historical sketch show. A confused World War I soldier spends his first day in the trenches, and the Welsh women of Fishguard defeat a French invasion without even trying.
Series 2
Historical sketch show. Barmy Roman emperor Caligula fails to invade Britain, King Henry VIII plays tennis while Anne Boleyn is executed, and some Saxon monks throw a party.
Series 4, Episode 9
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Historical sketch show. King Edward III gets married on a building site, while Julius Caesar reveals his not-very-secret tips on hiding baldness.