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Horrible Histories

Season 8

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Queen Vic's Home Vids
Episode 130 min2019-06-03

Queen Vic's Home Vids

Featuring Victorian fake news, paparazzi, and cameramen strapped to the front of moving trains, Queen Victoria shows you how her subjects invented and became obsessed with films!

Fashion Faux Pas
Episode 230 min2019-06-10

Fashion Faux Pas

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.

Chaotic Collabs
Episode 330 min2019-06-17

Chaotic Collabs

History is filled with tales of great minds coming together, and collaborating, to achieve incredible things. It’s also full of idiots working together to create an unholy mess, and people forming partnerships for decidedly sinister reasons - welcome to Horrible Histories’ Chaotic Collabs!

Mind Your Manners!
Episode 430 min2019-06-24

Mind Your Manners!

Rattus is panicking, as the Rat Queen is visiting the sewer and he has no idea how to behave nicely around royalty! Not only that, if he can somehow appear attractive to the Queen, maybe he could be the next Rat King?! Luckily, help is at hand in the (very well-mannered) shape of First Dates’ Fred Sirieix, a man who knows all about how to behave politely in high society. Fred will guide Rattus through the Horrible History of Manners and Etiquette, in a bid to help him on his quest.

Fearsome Families
Episode 530 min2019-07-01

Fearsome Families

Families - sometimes you love them, sometimes you bicker with them, and sometimes you marry them off to consolidate your power in Europe. Welcome to a look at some of history’s most fearsome families.

Bizarre Beasts
Episode 630 min2019-07-08

Bizarre Beasts

A look at some of the various ways in which, throughout history, humans have lived with, worked with, and interacted with animals.

Moon Mayhem
Episode 730 min2019-07-15

Moon Mayhem

Comedian and space nerd Dara O Briain joins Rattus as guest host for a special show that marks the anniversary of the 1969 moon landings.

Putrid Politics
Episode 830 min2019-07-22

Putrid Politics

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.

Heroic Home Front
Episode 930 min2019-09-09

Heroic Home Front

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.

Fierce Females
Episode 1030 min2020-03-08

Fierce Females

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.

Outrageous Olympics
Episode 1130 min2020-07-17

Outrageous Olympics

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 the sports-mad Henry VIII sings Get Sweaty.

Mayflower Malarkey
Episode 1230 min2020-09-14

Mayflower Malarkey

The Puritans set sail, Queen Elizabeth I loses a colony, and the Founding Fathers sing!

Holly H Song Special
Episode 1330 min2020-07-17

Holly H Song Special

Rattus has launched his own radio station (‘BBC Radio Number Two’) and who better to advise him on the songs he should be playing than social media star Holly H? Together, they bring us a collection of some of the best songs of this series, plus new material from some of the famous historical faces we meet along the way.

Fantastic Firsts Special
Episode 1430 min2020-07-27

Fantastic Firsts Special

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!

Beastly Bodily Functions Special
Episode 1530 min2020-08-03

Beastly Bodily Functions Special

Doctors Chris and Xand van Tulleken join Rattus for a selection of old and new sketches relating to bodies.

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