Episode guide
Horrible Histories: Series 8
15 episodes · premiered Jun 2, 2019
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- Episode 1: Queen Vic's Home Vids Jun 3, 2019 · 30m 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!
- Episode 2: Fashion Faux Pas Jun 10, 2019 · 30m 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.
- Episode 3: Chaotic Collabs Jun 17, 2019 · 30m 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…
- Episode 4: Mind Your Manners! Jun 24, 2019 · 30m 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…
- Episode 5: Fearsome Families Jul 1, 2019 · 30m 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…
- Episode 6: Bizarre Beasts Jul 8, 2019 · 30m A look at some of the various ways in which, throughout history, humans have lived with, worked with, and interacted with animals.
- Episode 7: Moon Mayhem Jul 15, 2019 · 30m 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.
- Episode 8: Putrid Politics Jul 22, 2019 · 30m 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.
- Episode 9: Heroic Home Front Sep 9, 2019 · 30m 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.
- Episode 10: Fierce Females Mar 8, 2020 · 30m 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.
- Episode 11: Outrageous Olympics Jul 17, 2020 · 30m 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.
- Episode 12: Mayflower Malarkey Sep 14, 2020 · 30m The Puritans set sail, Queen Elizabeth I loses a colony, and the Founding Fathers sing!
- Episode 13: Holly H Song Special Jul 17, 2020 · 30m 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…
- Episode 14: Fantastic Firsts Special Jul 27, 2020 · 30m 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!
- Episode 15: Beastly Bodily Functions Special Aug 3, 2020 · 30m Doctors Chris and Xand van Tulleken join Rattus for a selection of old and new sketches relating to bodies.