Horrible Histories
189 total works
HORRIBLE HISTORIES GRUESOME GUIDES: STRATFORD-UPON-AVON
takes readers on a gore-tastic tour of the streets of Stratford-upon-Avon
exposing all of its most scurrilous secrets.
With the frightful full-colour map tourists can plot their path
to the past - pay their respects at Shakespeare's
grave, brave spooky Sheep street, and lob cheese in the river.
Fatal fleabites, bloody battles and brutal beheadings,
it's a trip no Horrible history fan will want
to miss!
A stunning new edition of this gory city guide with all
the gruesome bits left in!
HORRIBLE HISTORIES GRUESOME GUIDES: EDINBURGH takes
readers on a gore-tastic tour of the streets of Edinburgh exposing
all of its most scurrilous secrets.
With the frightful full-colour map tourists can plot their path
to the past - climb up the cursed castle, hit the High Street for
a whole host of historical horrors and visit hellish Holyrood
House.
Kidnapped kings, mysterious murders and reckless raids,
it's a trip no Horrible Histories fan will want to miss!
A stunning edition of this gory city guide with all the
gruesome bits left in!
Horrible Histories: Gruesome Guide To Oxford takes readers
on a gore-tastic tour of the streets of Oxford, exposing all
of its most scurrilous secrets.
With the frightful full-colour map, tourists
can plot their path to the past,
take a punt past corpse-ridden Christchurch
go skeleton-spotting at the cruel and crumbling castle.
Burning bishops, blood-soaked streets and student
scraps - it's a trip no Horrible Histories fan will
want to miss!
DEADLY DAYS IN HISTORY is the most horrible HORRIBLE HISTORIES book yet. Terry Deary and Martin Brown take a whirlwind tour through the most dreadful, disastrous and deadly days in the whole of horrible history, from the grim Great Fire of Rome to the vile St Valentine's Day Massacre, leaving the gory bits in (and the boring bits out).
From Tintagel Castle in Cornwall to Skibo Castle in the Scottish
highlands, Horrible Histories: Crackin' Castles covers the history
of Britain from the time of the Romans to the London Blitz. Filled
with adventure, danger, magic, sieges, treachery, spies, revenge
and much more besides - all in the classic Horrible Histories
style!
It's a seriously horrible read.
highlands, Horrible Histories: Crackin' Castles covers the history
of Britain from the time of the Romans to the London Blitz. Filled
with adventure, danger, magic, sieges, treachery, spies, revenge
and much more besides - all in the classic Horrible Histories
style!
It's a seriously horrible read.
Refreshed, renewed, reloaded!
All the Awful Egyptians' most horrible facts ready for
readers to uncover, including:
why the Egyptian people worshipped a dung beetle,
which pharaoh married her grandfather
and what the 'Shepherd of the Royal Backside' had to do!
As featured on BBC Bitesize, and refreshed with a fantastic new
design, these bestselling titles are sure to be
a huge hit with yet another generation of Terry Deary fans.
With shiny foil cover
All the Awful Egyptians' most horrible facts ready for
readers to uncover, including:
why the Egyptian people worshipped a dung beetle,
which pharaoh married her grandfather
and what the 'Shepherd of the Royal Backside' had to do!
As featured on BBC Bitesize, and refreshed with a fantastic new
design, these bestselling titles are sure to be
a huge hit with yet another generation of Terry Deary fans.
With shiny foil cover
Top 50 Kings and Queens is packed full of foul facts and loathsome
lists all about our ruthless rulers. Filled with brand new material,
this pocket-sized guide to rotten royalty has all the trademark
Horrible Histories humour in bite-sized chunks. With eye-catching,
full-colour layouts and new illustrations from Martin Brown,
it's perfect for fans of the series and new readers alike.
lists all about our ruthless rulers. Filled with brand new material,
this pocket-sized guide to rotten royalty has all the trademark
Horrible Histories humour in bite-sized chunks. With eye-catching,
full-colour layouts and new illustrations from Martin Brown,
it's perfect for fans of the series and new readers alike.
Discover all the foul facts about fifty gruesome great
houses in this addition to the Horrible Histories series.
From Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh to Buckingham Palace in London,
Horrible Histories: Gruesome Great Houses covers the history
of Britain and Ireland from the time of the savage Stone Age
right up until the present day.
Full of dark mysteries, gruesome ghost stories and terrible tales
of betrayal and revenge, it's a seriously horrible read with
all the gore and more.
fully illustrated throughout with Martin Brown's hilarious line
drawings
Take a round-the-world trip and discover how people lived in the putrid past, from the phascinating pharaohs of ancient Egypt to the fancypants French royalty. Stuffed full of foul facts, crafty cartoons and putrid puzzles, there's a whole heap of nasty bits inside! History has never been so horrible!
Record your own Horrible History in this brilliantly
foul fact-packed diary.
Maybe… Charles I got the chop on dad’s birthday,
21 people drowned in treacle on the first day of term or you share
a birthday with Ivan the Terrible?
Draw, write, scribble or sketch your way through your year with
a new foul and fascinating fact every day of the year!
Fill in your own daft, dire or desperate diary dates, and be
amazed by some horrible historical events
A reissue of the Dreadful Diary
with a brand-new, colour look
Contains fill-in, interactive content
Featuring hilarious illustrations by Martin Brown
The perfect book for anyone who likes their history a little
more gory
The Horrible History of the World presents the
foul but fascinating story of humans from brain-nibbling Neanderthals
to terrified teenage soldiers in the twentieth century.
You can discover:
Why Alexander the Great banned beards
What smelly sport was played by samurai warriors
And who tried to bump off her enemies with a cake made with poisoned
bath-water.
It's all you ever need to know about the
wicked world - all the gore and more!
History with the nasty bits left in! 'The Cut-throat Celts' gives you the ghastly truth about the wild warrior race who weren't afraid to fight the rotten Romans ... and who had the horrible habit of collecting human heads. Want to know why weird Celt warriors fought with no clothes on? How to preserve your enemy's brain? Why the Celts laughed at funerals? Read on for some gory stories about suffering saints, gruesome games for Celtic kids, and find out about the dreadful Druids, their strange sacrifices and terrible trials. History has never been so horrible!
"Rotten Rulers" gives you the lowdown on the world's most loathsome leaders. From bizarre tsars and evil emperors to crazy kings an queens, people all around the world have suffered at the hands of their rulers for centuries. Whether they're nutty or nasty, fa or foul, those in charge rarely get it right. Want to know: Who gave the job of high priest to a donkey? Who choked to death while eating a crow? Who celebrated victory by eating his enemy's head? Read on for the power-crazed president who still rules from the grave and find out about the suffering slave who was ordered to collect 500 kilos of spider webs for his boss. Meet Genghis the Mongolian murderer and discover just how terrible Ivan really was. History has never been so horrible.
The long and complicated story of ancient Rome is told as never before - without being long or complicated! 10 comic-strip capers deliver the dreadful details from that terrible and tyrannical era. Readers are taken on a blood soaked tour from Romulus and Remus to Caligula and Cassius.
In THE BEASTLY BEST BITS Terry Deary and Martin Brown take you on a guided tour through the history of the world using their favourite bits of 20 years of HORRIBLE HISTORIES books. And they promise to leave the gory bits in (and the boring bits out). 2013 is the twentieth anniversary of HORRIBLE HISTORIES.
Top 50 Villains is packed full of foul facts and loathsome lists
all about vile villains. From gangs of gangsters to maniacs who massacre,
meet the biggest baddies in history and discover how they
tortured and terrified their way to the top. Find out whose savage
speciality was nostril-splitting, which evil emperor served up
guts in gold dishes, whose axe-murdering antics were turned into
a ballet and much more. It's all you need to know about villains
- all the gore and more!
all about vile villains. From gangs of gangsters to maniacs who massacre,
meet the biggest baddies in history and discover how they
tortured and terrified their way to the top. Find out whose savage
speciality was nostril-splitting, which evil emperor served up
guts in gold dishes, whose axe-murdering antics were turned into
a ballet and much more. It's all you need to know about villains
- all the gore and more!
This title features brand new hilarious romps through all the horrible highlights in history. Ten comic-strip capers deliver all the dreadful details that readers need to know about the terrible Tudors. It's history with the nasty bits left in - full speed ahead.
History with the nasty bits left in! 'The Barmy British Empire' gives you the brutal facts about how Britannia ruled the waves - from infamous antics in India to dreadful deeds done down under. Read on for foul facts about savage slavers, rotten rebels and nasty natives, go for victory with Queen Victoria's quick eastern quiz, and meet some of the most horrid heroes of the British Empire face to face. History has never been so horrible!
Readers can discover all the foul facts about the Villainous Victorians,
including why burglars were scared of bogies, which poet
said he ate an ape and how a snick fadger might kiddy-nap your spangle.
With a bold, accessible new look and a heap of extra-horrible
bits, these bestselling titles are sure to be a huge hit with
yet another generation of Terry Deary fans.
including why burglars were scared of bogies, which poet
said he ate an ape and how a snick fadger might kiddy-nap your spangle.
With a bold, accessible new look and a heap of extra-horrible
bits, these bestselling titles are sure to be a huge hit with
yet another generation of Terry Deary fans.
Readers can discover all the foul facts about the Barmy British Empire,
including how a war started when a Brit was sitting on a stool,
who wore a necklace made of 50 human skulls and why a British
soldier used his own coffin as a wardrobe. With a bold, accessible
new look and revised by the author, these bestselling titles
are sure to be a huge hit with yet another generation of Terry Deary
fans.
including how a war started when a Brit was sitting on a stool,
who wore a necklace made of 50 human skulls and why a British
soldier used his own coffin as a wardrobe. With a bold, accessible
new look and revised by the author, these bestselling titles
are sure to be a huge hit with yet another generation of Terry Deary
fans.