Horrible Histories (2009)

  • Premiered: Apr 2009
  • Episodes: 149
  • Followers: 52
  • Running
  • CBBC
  • Friday at 17
  • Animation Children Comedy Documentary Family History

Seasons:

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Season 8
8x1
Queen Vic's Home Vids
Episode overview
Air date
Jun 03, 2019
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!
8x2
Fashion Faux Pas
Episode overview
Air date
Jun 03, 2019
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.
8x3
Chaotic Collabs
Episode overview
Air date
Jun 10, 2019
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!
8x4
Mind Your Manners
Episode overview
Air date
Jun 17, 2019
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.
8x5
Fearsome Families
Episode overview
Air date
Jun 24, 2019
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.
8x6
Bizarre Beasts
Episode overview
Air date
Jul 01, 2019
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.
8x7
Moon Mayhem
Episode overview
Air date
Jul 08, 2019
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!
8x8
Putrid Politics
Episode overview
Air date
Jul 22, 2019
Dani Dyer becomes Rattus’ political advisor as we look at everything from the birth of democracy to Margaret Thatcher having to change her voice so she would be taken more seriously.
8x9
Heroic Home Front
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 09, 2019
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.
8x10
Fierce Females
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 08, 2020
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.
8x11
Outrageous Olympics
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Air date
Jul 17, 2020
Alex Scott joins Rattus for a sport-themed special. Mary Queen of Scots goes grief-golfing, the H2 Freestylers take on a whole village, and sports-mad Henry VIII sings Get Sweaty.
8x11
Holly H Song Special
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Air date
Jul 20, 2020
Social media star Holly H is Rattus’ guest as he launches his own radio station, BBC Radio Number Two, and plays a selection of musical greatest hits from the series.
8x13
Holly H Song Special
Episode overview
Air date
Jul 20, 2020
Social media star Holly H is Rattus’ guest as he launches his own radio station, BBC Radio Number Two, and plays a selection of musical greatest hits from the series.
8x12
Fantastic Firsts Special
Episode overview
Air date
Jul 27, 2020
A special show featuring some of history’s greatest firsts, including the first ever library, Olympic Games, people on the moon and rat roller-skating on TV!
8x14
Fantastic Firsts Special
Episode overview
Air date
Jul 27, 2020
A special show featuring some of history's greatest firsts, including the first ever library, Olympic Games, people on the moon and rat roller-skating on TV!
8x15 Season finale
Beastly Bodily Functions Special
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Air date
Aug 03, 2020
Doctors Chris and Xand van Tulleken join Rattus for a selection of old and new sketches relating to bodies.
8x12
Mayflower Malarkey
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Air date
Sep 14, 2020
Washington, Jefferson, Queen Elizabeth I, social media sensation Zack Septic-Tank and a host of plucky Puritans star in a show marking 400 years since the Mayflower’s famous voyage

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