Horrible Histories
Horrible Histories is a TV show on CBBC. The program has been available since 2024. A total of 133 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in October 2025.
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Horrible Histories
Historical sketch show. King Alfred the Great argues with his older brothers then defeats the Vikings using his cunning hit-and-run tactics.
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Sketch comedy series. A guide to ancient civilizations, featuring new sketches about Alexander the Great's first kiss.
Series 4
Historical sketch show. King Edward III gets married on a building site, while Julius Caesar reveals his not-very-secret tips on hiding baldness.
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.
Series 9
Horrible Histories delves into the not-so-easy lives of children throughout history.
Protests about inequality or environmental damage are common today, but how have people protested in the past? Emmeline Pankhurst is our guide through this history of protest.
Series 4
Historical sketch show. A confused Christopher Columbus declares he has found India, and a Georgian woman reveals her very stupid death.
Series 9
Horrible Histories celebrates 100 years of the BBC with this special episode that takes us through the history of children’s TV.
From Cleopatra’s hairdo to Elizabeth I’s flushing loo, meet history’s biggest Influencers.
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.
Series 1
Historical sketch show based on the successful books. A Victorian teacher is confused by her pupils' bizarre names and the Romans run out of animals to execute.
Series 4
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 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.
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.
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.