Season 8
Episodes
S8 · E1 · 3 Jun 2019 · 30 min
Queen Vic's Home Vids
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!
S8 · E2 · 10 Jun 2019 · 30 min
Fashion Faux Pas
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.
S8 · E3 · 17 Jun 2019 · 30 min
Chaotic Collabs
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 forming partnerships for decidedly sinister reasons - welcome to Horrible Histories’ Chaotic Collabs!
S8 · E4 · 24 Jun 2019 · 30 min
Mind Your Manners!
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 he could be the next Rat King?! Luckily, help is at hand in the (very well-mannered) shape of First Dates’ Fred Sirieix, a man who knows all about how to behave politely in high society. Fred will guide Rattus through the Horrible History of Manners and Etiquette, in a bid to help him on his quest.
S8 · E5 · 1 Jul 2019 · 30 min
Fearsome Families
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 fearsome families.
S8 · E6 · 8 Jul 2019 · 30 min
Bizarre Beasts
A look at some of the various ways in which, throughout history, humans have lived with, worked with, and interacted with animals.
S8 · E7 · 15 Jul 2019 · 30 min
Moon Mayhem
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.
S8 · E8 · 22 Jul 2019 · 30 min
Putrid Politics
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.
S8 · E9 · 9 Sept 2019 · 30 min
Heroic Home Front
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.
S8 · E10 · 8 Mar 2020 · 30 min
Fierce Females
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.
S8 · E11 · 17 Jul 2020 · 30 min
Outrageous Olympics
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.
S8 · E12 · 14 Sept 2020 · 30 min
Mayflower Malarkey
The Puritans set sail, Queen Elizabeth I loses a colony, and the Founding Fathers sing!
S8 · E13 · 17 Jul 2020 · 30 min
Holly H Song Special
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 collection of some of the best songs of this series, plus new material from some of the famous historical faces we meet along the way.
S8 · E14 · 27 Jul 2020 · 30 min
Fantastic Firsts Special
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!
S8 · E15 · 3 Aug 2020 · 30 min
Beastly Bodily Functions Special
Doctors Chris and Xand van Tulleken join Rattus for a selection of old and new sketches relating to bodies.
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