The Horrible tells you... the Tudors are killers, the medievals are dirty idiots. The Greeks are grimy, the Romans are rotten. The Victorians are Vile. I read the whole Tudor volume and it was full of errors. I didn't record them, however, but here is the blurb from the HH webpage:
Terrible Tudors weren?t just terrible. They were a heck of a horrible bunch! What with Henry VIII and his unlucky wives, and beastly Queen Bess and her slaughtered suitors, even the Tudor kings and queens were royally rotten! So find out?
Why Henry VIII thought he?d married a horse
Which terrible torture methods the twisted Tudors used
Which shocking swear words they simply loved to say
How an awful Tudor axeman kept botching the job
What foul food the Tudors ate
Plus there are bloody beheadings, a mysterious murder, lots of curious quizzes and some gruesome games.
I mean, come on. How can this be anything other than contemptuous? Actually the Tudor legal regime used torture less than virtually any other regime in Europe. The pathetic joke about Anne of Cleves is just News of the Worldese. The foul food is just cultural prejudice run absolutely amok.
And where's the other side of the picture? Discoveries in science and exploration, all kinds of new art including the secular stage, awesome music, great buildings, a great era of shipbuilding and sailing, and almost incredible naval win against a super[power, the beginnings of real homegrown political thinking. Too boring, isn't it?