Season 8
15 episodes · Jun 3, 2019
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S8E1Queen Vic's Home Vids
Jun 3, 201930mFeaturing 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!
S8E2Fashion Faux Pas
Jun 10, 201930mThe Horrible History of (sometimes literally) dressing to kill. Henry VIII has beef over whose armour is best and Louis XV dresses as a hedge.
S8E3Chaotic Collabs
Jun 17, 201930mHistory 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!
S8E4Mind Your Manners!
Jun 24, 201930mRattus 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.
S8E5Fearsome Families
Jul 1, 201930mFamilies - 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.
S8E6Bizarre Beasts
Jul 8, 201930mA look at some of the various ways in which, throughout history, humans have lived with, worked with, and interacted with animals.
S8E7Moon Mayhem
Jul 15, 201930mComedian and space nerd Dara O Briain joins Rattus as guest host for a special show that marks the anniversary of the 1969 moon landings.
S8E8Putrid Politics
Jul 22, 201930mDani 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.
S8E9Heroic Home Front
Sep 9, 201930mA 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.
S8E10Fierce Females
Mar 8, 202030mA 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.
S8E11Outrageous Olympics
Jul 17, 202030mAlex 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.
S8E12Mayflower Malarkey
Sep 14, 202030mThe Puritans set sail, Queen Elizabeth I loses a colony, and the Founding Fathers sing!
S8E13Holly H Song Special
Jul 17, 202030mRattus 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.
S8E14Fantastic Firsts Special
Jul 27, 202030mA 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!
S8E15Beastly Bodily Functions Special
Aug 3, 202030mDoctors Chris and Xand van Tulleken join Rattus for a selection of old and new sketches relating to bodies.