Horrible Histories: Season 8
Season 8 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Picks up essential narrative continuity directly following the events of Horrible Histories Season 7.
- Character alliances, factions, and personal loyalties undergo significant shifts under escalating stakes.
- Addresses unresolved cliffhangers and thematic mysteries introduced during previous seasons.
- Establishes the primary seasonal conflict that drives serialized character arcs toward the finale.
Episode Guide
Season 8 Progress Shield
Queen Vic's Home Vids
Jun 3, 2019 · 30 min
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!
Fashion Faux Pas
Jun 10, 2019 · 30 min
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.
Chaotic Collabs
Jun 17, 2019 · 30 min
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, an
Mind Your Manners!
Jun 24, 2019 · 30 min
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,
Fearsome Families
Jul 1, 2019 · 30 min
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 mos
Bizarre Beasts
Jul 8, 2019 · 30 min
A look at some of the various ways in which, throughout history, humans have lived with, worked with, and interacted with animals.
Moon Mayhem
Jul 15, 2019 · 30 min
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.
Putrid Politics
Jul 22, 2019 · 30 min
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 seriousl
Heroic Home Front
Sep 9, 2019 · 30 min
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.
Fierce Females
Mar 8, 2020 · 30 min
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.
Outrageous Olympics
Jul 17, 2020 · 30 min
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 Swea
Mayflower Malarkey
Sep 14, 2020 · 30 min
The Puritans set sail, Queen Elizabeth I loses a colony, and the Founding Fathers sing!
Holly H Song Special
Jul 17, 2020 · 30 min
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 bri
Fantastic Firsts Special
Jul 27, 2020 · 30 min
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!
Beastly Bodily Functions Special
Aug 3, 2020 · 30 min
Doctors Chris and Xand van Tulleken join Rattus for a selection of old and new sketches relating to bodies.