to think that Horrible Histories is a complete work of art...

[RudsyFarmer]

It’s completely genius. It’s taught my nine year old to have a love of history. Has given him a huge amount of facts that he has retained a year later. Has taught me a lot too!!! It’s funny and educational whilst still being cheeky and cool. I wish they’d done similar with science or geography.

My ‘kids’ are in their twenties and were singing ‘stay calmer if you wanna harm a llama’ this morning.

William William Henry Stephen Henry Richard John also a favourite here!

The books are great. My boys are maths nerds and absorbed all the Murderous Maths books. We even met the author of those at a science festival, Kjartan Poskitt.

I loved horrible histories, the songs are so catchy

I was actually singing ‘Stupid deaths’ on my walk to the shops this morning. DC now young adults, I can’t believe it’s stuck in my head all these years later 😂

My 10yo LOVES the Harmallama song

Bob Hale was the favourite in this house.

Do the Patchacooti.

That is all.

There was an audio version as well - I used to play the CDs in the car when DCs were small and we'd all sing along together. It saved many a journey! I looked for the CDs a couple of years ago, but I don't think they're available now, sadly😞

Horrible histories formed a large part of our home education history learning. Learnt loads from the TV progs, read the books and followed up with visits to historical places etc.

I'm always amazed by the random facts and information DS knows because of Horrible Histories, its brilliant. Also the Masterchef bit is genius.

It’s brilliant. I quite often watch it by myself. I’ve got quite the crush on Matthew Baynton (especially as Dick Turpin!).

I can do the Charles II rap. The show and books are SUCH a good springboard for budding history buffs. Also there is Mat Baynton

Pull out their teeth whoooole..

Thank you for this, I'm definitely going to have a listen!

All hail. The King. Of Bling 🙌

Love HH! Watched it with my kids and learnt so much. The songs keep showing up on my Fb feed this last week, this one about the RAF is outstanding:

Love Horrible Histories! DS is now 15 years old and, if a history question comes up on a quiz he'll invariably say 'oh I know that one, they did it on HH'.

Never get bored with it - Bob Hale is our favourite too and it's become a thing in our house to say 'BUT NOT FOR LONG' to occasional sentences starting with 'looks like' - so 'looks like the rain's stopped' or 'looks like x and y are talking to each other again'. We are so very sad in our house...

We download You're Dead To Me (95 episodes on the BBC) for car journeys. Along with 30 Animals That Made Us Smarter. That's a science podcast about the way scientists learned things from animals which is changing the way we live (like how they studied bees to find quicker delivery routes). Very interesting but easy to understand www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0bhb33y.

There was a thread asking for our favourite HH song, which inspired me to look up Ain’t Staying Alive. Aside from being one of the few songs which features Larry in a lead vocal role, I love it because Matt’s dancing was strangely sexy.

I just found HH during lockdown, on Prime. I watched the first five seasons. I just settled in for a re-watch and now the first three series are not available.

We’ve watched them all and have learnt a lot and laughed a lot. The stage shows are also brilliant!

Stupid deaths
Stupid deaths
They're funny cos they're true

All the series are available on iplayer.

This is my favourite HH song. It's brilliant, and I love the Charles II rap too.

My kids are grown up now but I still watch old HH episodes occasionally. We hosted a HH New Year party years ago - I went as Stupid Death 💀

It's a work of genius.

The songs are outstanding, the cast are sublimely talented, and it all looks great fun!

I would guess that the Dick Turpin song was a sexual awakening for many young people!

I play the HH songs as a 'treat' at the end of my History lessons. Always goes down well!

The Charles Dickens/Smiths mash-up is so clever.

Dickens with gladioli is just genius.