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, gorey, 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.
Titles in the series
- The Angry Aztecs - (Aztecs)
- The Awesome Egyptians (1993) - (Ancient Egypt)
- The Barmy British Empire - (British Empire)
- The Blitzed Brits - (The Blitz)
- Bloody Scotland - (History of Scotland)
- The Cut Throat Celts - (Celts)
- Cruel Crimes and Painful Punishments
- Cruel Kings and Mean Queens
- Dark Knights and Dingy Castles - (Knight, Castle)
- Dreadful Diary
- The Even More Terrible Tudors - (Tudor dynasty)
- The Frightful First World War - (World War I)
- The Gorgeous Georgians - (Georgian era)
- The Groovy Greeks - (Ancient Greece)
- Horrible Christmas (2000) - (Christmas)
- Horrible History of Ireland (2000) - (History of Ireland)
- The Incredible Incas - (2000) (Tahuantinsuyu)
- The Mad Millennium
- The Measly Middle Ages - (Middle Ages)
- The Rotten Romans - (Ancient Rome)
- Rowdy Revolutions
- The Savage Stone Age - (Stone age)
- The Slimy Stuarts - (House of Stuart)
- The Smashing Saxons (2000) - (Saxons)
- The Stormin' Normans - (Normans)
- The Terrible Tudors (1993) - (Tudor dynasty)
- The 20th Century - (20th century)
- The Vicious Vikings - (Vikings)
- The Vile Victorians - (Victorian era)
- Wicked Words
- The Woeful Second World War - (World War II)
There have been several spin-off series: Horrible Science (written by Nick Arnold and illustrated by Tony de Saulle), Horrible Geography (written by Anita Ganeri illustrated by Mike Phillips), Murderous Maths (written by Kjartan Poskitt and illustrated by Philip Reeve) and The Knowledge (written and illustrated by a variety of authors and illustrators).
External links
- The Horrible Zone at Scholastic (http://www.scholastic.co.uk/zone/frame_horrible_zone.htm)
- Horrible Histories section of Terry Deary's official site (http://www.terry-deary.com/shop/pages/horrhistory.html)