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The history they don't teach you in school. - Horrible Histories - Season 8
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Title: Horrible Histories

Overview: Based on the best-selling children's books and liberally splattered with guts, blood and poo, a group of British comedians offer an anarchic and unconventional take on some of history's most gruesome and funny moments, with topics including the Stone Age, the Middle Ages, the Egyptians and the Romans, among others.

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Horrible Histories - Queen Vic's Home Vids (Season 8 - Episode 1)

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!

Horrible Histories - Fashion Faux Pas (Season 8 - Episode 2)

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.

Horrible Histories - Chaotic Collabs (Season 8 - Episode 3)

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!

Horrible Histories - Mind Your Manners! (Season 8 - Episode 4)

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.

Horrible Histories - Fearsome Families (Season 8 - Episode 5)

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.

Horrible Histories - Bizarre Beasts (Season 8 - Episode 6)

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

Horrible Histories - Moon Mayhem (Season 8 - Episode 7)

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.

Horrible Histories - Putrid Politics (Season 8 - Episode 8)

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.

Horrible Histories - Heroic Home Front (Season 8 - Episode 9)

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.

Horrible Histories - Fierce Females (Season 8 - Episode 10)

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.

Horrible Histories - Outrageous Olympics (Season 8 - Episode 11)

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.

Horrible Histories - Mayflower Malarkey (Season 8 - Episode 12)

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

Horrible Histories - Holly H Song Special (Season 8 - Episode 13)

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.

Horrible Histories - Fantastic Firsts Special (Season 8 - Episode 14)

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!

Horrible Histories - Beastly Bodily Functions Special (Season 8 - Episode 15)

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

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