Logo of the book series.
Horrible Histories is the name of a series of humorous non-fiction books for children, wriiten by Terry Deary with illustrations by Martin Brown. The books are described as history "with the nasty bits left in". In spite of their humorous approach and the limited amount of text in them, the books are factually accurate and informative. They have been credited with inspiring many children who had not previously been engaged by books to take an interest in reading.
A children's television series based on the books has been broadcast by the BBC since 2009.
Titles in the serie[]
- The 20th Century
- The Angry Aztecs
- The Awesome Ancient Quiz Book
- The Awesome Egyptians
- Awesome Annual 2007
- The Awful Egyptians
- The Barmy British Empire
- The Blitzed Brits
- Bloody Scotland
- The Cut Throat Celts
- Cruel Crime and Painful Punishment
- Cruel Kings and Mean Queens
- Dark Knights and Dingy Castles
- Dreadful Diary
- Dublin
- Edinburgh
- Egent Edwardians
- England
- Even More Horrible History (by Tim Wood)
- Even More Terrible Tudors
- France
- The Frightful First World War
- The Gorgeous Georgians
- The Groovy Greeks
- Horrible Christmas
- The Horrible History of the World
- Horrible Histories Handbooks - Knights
- Horrible Histories Handbooks - Pirates
- The Horribly Huge Quiz Book
- The Incredible Incas
- Ireland (2000)
- Loathsome London
- The Mad Miscellany
- The Mad Millennium
- The Measly Middle Ages
- Oxford
- Poisonous Postcards
- The Rotten Romans
- The Ruthless Romans
- Rotten Rulers
- Rowdy Revolutions
- The Savage Stone Age
- The Slimy Stuarts
- The Smashing Saxons
- Stratford-upon-Avon
- The Stormin' Normans
- The Terrible Tudors
- The USA
- The Vicious Vikings
- The Vile Victorians
- The Villainous Victorians
- The Wicked History of the World
- Wicked Words
- The Woeful Second World War
- York