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Horrible Histories was a BBC TV educational comedy series aimed at children based on the series of Horrible Histories books by Terry Deary. The series ran for five seasons and six specials from 2009 to 2014. There were 23 original books in the collection (List at bottom of gallery), and 18 of them were re-published with TV tie-in covers. The series was revived featuring a new cast, that has run for eleven series from 2015 to the present date. In 2019 there was the 'Horrible Histories the Movie - Rotten Romans' film released and novelised by Scholastic Books. = In My Collection / = Not in My Collection

Scholastic Books

2009 Awesome Egyptians

2009 Frightful First World War

2009 Groovy Greeks

2009 Gorgeous Georgians

2009 Measly Middle Ages

2009 Rotten Romans

2009 Savage Stone Age

2009 Slimy Stuarts

2009 Terrible Tudors

2009 Vicious Vikings

2009 Vile Victorians

2009 Woeful Second World War

2010 Awful Egyptians

2010 Blitzed Brits

2010 Ruthless Romans

2010 Smashing Saxons

2010 Terrifying Tudors

2010 Villainous Victorians

2019 Horrible Histories the Movie - Rotten Romans

List of original Horrible Histories Books...

Angry Aztecs (Not seen a TV Tie-in)
Awesome Egyptians
Awful Egyptians
Barmy British Empire (Not seen a TV Tie-in)
Blitzed Brits
Cut-Throat Celts (Not seen a TV Tie-in)
Frightful First World War
Gorgeous Georgians
Groovy Greeks
Incredible Incas (Not seen a TV Tie-in)
Stormin' Normans (Not seen a TV Tie-in)
Measly Middle Ages
Rotten Romans
Ruthless Romans
Savage Stone Age
Slimy Stuarts
Smashing Saxons
Terrible Tudors
Terrifying Tudors
Vicious Vikings
Vile Victorians
Villainous Victorians
Woeful Second World War