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Horrible Histories is a series of illustrated books published in the United Kingdom by Scholastic. They are designed to get children interested in history by concentrating on the trivial, unusual, gory, or unpleasant. more...

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The series has proved exceptionally successful in commercial terms. The books are written by Terry Deary and illustrated by Martin Brown.

The first books in the series, The Terrible Tudors and The Awesome Egyptians, were published in June 1993.

Controversy

One particular book, Bloody Scotland, was almost banned in Scotland by the Scottish Separatist Group, who claimed it promoted a UK centric, anti-Scottish viewpoint of Scottish history, using comments like \"Cook the haggis until it looks like a hedgehog after the fifteenth lorry has run over it\". This section of the book was called Horrible Haggis, which was also annoying to the SSG. . The books were taken to the Commission for Racial Equality, who threw out the claims.

Similarly, the National Trust tried to ban Cruel Kings and Mean Queens because it made jokes about Prince Charles's ears, who happens to be a patron of the Trust; some text on Elizabeth II was also disliked. According to Terry Deary's homepage, the content of the book The USA has been banned in some areas.

There was also some controversy on eBay about The Barmy British Empire, over what Queen Victoria said in the book about her husband, Albert.

Titles in Progress

Horrible Histories Annual 2008 - (Aug 07) (Calendar); Horrible Histories Handbook - Witches - (Sept 07) (Witches); Horrible Histories Handbook - Gladiators (Gladiators); Horrible Histories Handbook - Warriors - (Mar 07) (Warriors); Horrible Histories Handbook - Villains - (Villains); Horrible Histories - China - (History of China); Horrible Histories City - Oxford - (Feb 07) (History of Oxford); Horrible Histories - Wales - (Feb 08) (History of Wales); Horrible Histories pop-up book - (Sept 08); The Wicked History of Britain;

Titles in the series

The 20th Century - (20th century); The Angry Aztecs - (Aztecs); Are We There Yet? - (European colonization of the Americas); The Awesome Ancient Quiz Book - (Quiz Book about Ancient Civilisations); The Awesome Egyptians (1993) - (Ancient Egypt); Awesome Annual 2007 - (Calendar); The Awful Egyptians - (Ancient Egypt); The Barmy British Empire - (British Empire); The Blitzed Brits - (The Blitz); Bloody Scotland - (History of Scotland); The Cut Throat Celts - (Celts); Cruel Crimes and Painful Punishments - (Crime and Punishment); Cruel Kings and Mean Queens - (The Kings and Queens of England, Britain, and the United Kingdom); Dark Knights and Dingy Castles - (Knights, Castles); Dead!: The Story of Death and Dying; Disaster!: A History of Horrible Happenings; Dreadful Diary - (An 'on this day' style diary.); Dublin - (Dublin); Edinburgh - (Edinburgh); England - (England); Even More Horrible History (by Tim Wood); Even More Terrible Tudors - (Tudor dynasty); France - (France); The Frightful First World War - (World War I); The Gorgeous Georgians - (Georgian era); The Groovy Greeks - (Ancient Greece); Guilty!: History of Crime and Punishment; Horrible Christmas (2000) - (Christmas); The Horrible History of the World - (World History); Horrible Histories Handbooks - Knights - (Knights); Horrible Histories Handbooks - Pirates - (Pirates); The Horribly Huge Quiz Book - (Questions about this Millennium); The Incredible Incas - (2000) (Tahuantinsuyu - The Inca Empire); Ireland (2000) - (Ireland); Loathsome London - (2005) (London); The Mad Miscellany - (Miscellanious); The Mad Millenium - (A Play-script story of 1000 years of Horrible British History); Mad Millenium Play - (A Play-script story of 1000 years of Horrible British History); Massive Millenium Quiz Book - (Questions about this Millennium); The Measly Middle Ages - (Middle Ages); Oxford - (Oxford); Poisonous Postcards - (a Card Book); The Rotten Romans - (Ancient Rome); The Ruthless Romans - (Ancient Rome); Rotten Rulers - (Rulers through the years); Rowdy Revolutions - (Revolutions throughout the world); The Savage Stone Age - (Stone age); Sick!: Story of Illness and Getting Better; The Slimy Stuarts - (House of Stuart); The Smashing Saxons (2000) - (Saxons); Stratford Upon Avon - (Stratford-upon-Avon); The Stormin' Normans - (Normans); The Terrible Tudors (1993) - (Tudor dynasty); The USA - (The United States of America); The Vicious Vikings - (Vikings); The Vile Victorians - (Victorian era); The Villainous Victorians - (Victorian era); The Wicked History of the World - (Earth's History); Wicked Words; The Woeful Second World War - (World War II); York - (York);