Horrible Histories

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Horrible Histories is a series of illustrated books published in the United Kingdom by Scholastic. They are designed to get children interested in history by concentrating on the trivial, unusual, gory, or unpleasant. The series has proved exceptionally successful in commercial terms. The books are written by Terry Deary and illustrated by Martin Brown.

The first books in the series, The Terrible Tudors and The Awesome Egyptians, were published in June 1993.

One particular book, Bloody Scotland, was almost banned in Scotland by a group who claimed it promoted a UK centric, anti-Scottish viewpoint of Scottish history, using comments like "Cook the haggis until it looks like a hedgehog after the fifteenth lorry has run over it" [1]. The books were taken to the Commission for Racial Equality, who threw out the claims.

Similarly, the National Trust tried to ban Cruel Kings and Mean Queens because it made jokes about Prince Charles's ears, who happens to be a patron of the Trust. And according to Terry Deary's homepage, many content of the book "USA" is banned. [2]

Contents

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Titles in Progress

  • Horrible Histories Handbook - Witches (Sept 07) - (Witches)
  • Horrible Histories Handbook - Gladiators - (July 06) (Gladiators)
  • Horrible Histories Handbook - Warriors - (Mar 07) (Warriors)
  • Horrible Histories Handbook - Pirates - (Oct 06) (Pirates)
  • Horrible Histories Handbook - Knights - (Oct 06) (Knights)
  • Horrible Histories - A Wicked history of the World - (Sept 06)
  • Horrible Histories City - Oxford - (Feb 07) (History of Oxford)
  • Horrible Histories pop-up book - (Sept 08)
  • The Awful Egyptians - (Mar 06) (Ancient Egypt)
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Titles in the series

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Magazines

In late 2003 Terry Deary released the Horrible Histories Magazine Collection and in 2005 some of the titles in the series were released as free audiobooks as part of a promotion with breakfast cereal. Here is a list of the 60 Issues of the Magazine in the order in which they are received:

According to Horrible Histories, the series has become so popular that they've decided to add another 20 issues including: The Scary Scots: Woad Warriors, Awful England, The Super South Africans, The Shifty 50s, Extraordinary Explorers, The Terrifying Trojans, The Shocking 60s, The Elegant Edwardians and many more.

All of the issues are as follows but not in this order:

  • Even More Rotten Romans
  • Awful England
  • The Amazing Americans
  • Even More Vile Victorians
  • The Wild Welsh
  • The Scary Scots: Tartan Terrors
  • The Elegant Edwardians
  • The Scary Scots: Woad Warriors
  • The Super South Africans
  • Even More Extraordinary Explorers
  • The Terrifying Trojans
  • The Crazy Caribbean
  • The Busy Byzantines
  • The Awesome North American Indians
  • Awful England Again
  • The Shifty 50s
  • The Shocking 60s
  • Potty Portugal
  • The Polar Brrrs
  • Rotten Round-Up

So far, the issues collected are:

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Imitations

There have been several series written in the same style:

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External links

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