Horrible Histories Books in Order

A humorous introduction to ancient Egypt explores pharaohs, mummies, slaves, grooming, food, and royal customs. Co-written by Terry Deary and Peter Hepplewhite, it mixes historical facts with recipes, activities, and step-by-step prompts about Egyptian life.

An illustrated guide to Tudor England examines Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, royal marriages, food, insults, executions, and torture. It combines accounts of court life and ordinary people with quizzes and games that emphasize the period’s grimmer details.

A comic survey of ancient Rome covers its empire, army, religion, medicine, myths, and everyday habits. Readers encounter ruthless rule and grisly punishments alongside details about soldiers’ clothing, dining customs, and Roman methods of fortune-telling.

This illustrated look at Victorian Britain peers behind its respectable image to examine public sanitation, child life, medicine, crime, death, and social inequality. Cartoons, quizzes, and activities frame the era’s grim and bizarre realities for younger readers.

A fact-filled account of the Viking world follows seafaring raiders, their gods, ships, battles, and encounters with Saxon England. It also looks at rulers, warriors, and enslaved people, emphasizing the violence and odd customs behind familiar Viking legends.

A humorous tour of ancient Greek life explores childhood, medicine, inventions, religion, and the Olympic Games. Alongside serious history, the book spotlights stranger customs and unpleasant details that make the ancient world feel lively and unfamiliar.

This interactive diary invites readers to fill in their own dates while discovering a strange or gruesome event associated with every day of the year. Historical facts and Martin Brown’s illustrations turn a personal journal into a daily history activity.

A compact, 16-card novelty book in the Horrible Histories range, credited to Terry Deary. It uses a postcard-book format rather than the series’ conventional full-length history-book format.

In 1348, Geoffrey Copton returns to England from fighting in France just as the Black Death approaches. When he and his friend Meg uncover a scheme to rob and murder an innocent man, they must try to stop it.

A cartoon-illustrated guide to Aztec society examines religion, warfare, food, games, and the arrival of Spanish conquistadors. Terry Deary uses unsettling anecdotes and comic facts to introduce young readers to the civilization’s everyday life and rituals.

This history of the Celtic world introduces warrior customs, religious practices, games, funerals, saints, and Druids. It examines the people often known for resisting Rome while using strange and grisly details to illuminate daily life and belief.

Originally published as Even More Terrible Tudors, this companion to Terrible Tudors revisits Tudor England through its rulers and subjects. It covers Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I, alongside fairs, punishments, and royal intrigue.

A two-books-in-one historical collection comparing life in Georgian and Victorian Britain. It explores social conditions from wealthy households to poverty, mines, and schools, with activities such as recipes, games, quizzes, and classroom tests.

Seven children face a new history teacher and a frantic journey through the centuries in this comic stage play. Built for performance as well as reading, it turns a millennium of history into fast scenes, jokes, and historical chaos.

A quiz-packed romp through a thousand years of history, mixing questions, answers, and the series’ favorite foul facts. Readers can test themselves on rulers, wars, inventions, disasters, and the strange details that school lessons often skip.

A child-focused guide to the Stone Age that considers early humans, Neanderthals, archaeology, cave art, mummies, and Stonehenge. It uses offbeat facts and quizzes to show how evidence from prehistoric life is discovered and interpreted.

An illustrated history of World War II that follows wartime experiences on the home front and in combat, from Britain’s Dad’s Army to young people defending Berlin. Striking true details convey how widely the conflict affected civilians and soldiers.

A seasonal history book that explores Christmas food, customs, carols, traditions, and celebrations from different times. Alongside festive facts, it gathers eerie stories, unusual historical practices, and disasters connected with the holiday.

This quiz book draws on the Horrible Histories series, inviting readers to test their knowledge of a millennium of history. Its questions and answers turn the series’ historical subjects into a challenge for curious readers.

This introduction to the Incan Empire looks at its people, customs, rulers, and religion, including the empire’s vast reach and its conquest by Spanish invaders. Quizzes and macabre historical details accompany the account of everyday life and sacred traditions.

A comic, fact-filled history of the British Empire, tracing how it expanded across the world and examining conquest, slavery, rebellion, and the consequences for colonized peoples. The book highlights strange, grim, and revealing episodes from imperial rule.

A medieval-history activity package that examines knights, peasants, monks, the Black Death, schooling, food, and daily life in the Middle Ages. Alongside facts, recipes, and games, it includes novelty items intended to extend the book’s gross-out approach to learning.

This nonfiction volume surveys 7,000 years of crime and punishment, following lawbreakers and law enforcers from pirates and highwaymen to witch-finders and tyrants. It explores prisons, executions, transportation, and other harsh ways societies have dealt with crime.

An illustrated look at ancient Rome, from the city’s legendary founders to emperors, public spectacles, and the violence of the Colosseum. It focuses on the brutal customs, power struggles, and everyday horrors that lay behind the Roman Empire’s grand reputation.

This anniversary pack pairs a Tudor history book with a set of Horrible Histories playing cards. It explores Tudor rulers, peasants, criminals, curious remedies, and period games, while adding card-based activities for readers who want to bring the foul play off the page.

A fast-moving, illustrated survey of world history that follows humanity from early prehistory to twentieth-century wars. Its chapters spotlight civilizations, invasions, torture, rebellion, crime, exploration, and notorious villains, emphasizing the violent and bizarre details often skipped in textbook overviews.

A 2004 Horrible Histories activity book by Terry Deary focused on ancient Egypt. No reliable catalog synopsis was available to confirm its specific activities or contents.

This history of Britain’s Second World War home front covers blackout rules, air raids, rationing, evacuation, and the everyday shortages faced by civilians. It also looks at wartime slang, food substitutes, and real-life stories behind familiar images of the Blitz.

A chronological, illustrated guide to the First World War that follows the conflict from its outbreak through trench life and the home front. It addresses soldiers, civilians, women’s changing roles, wartime communication, animals, food, and the harsh conditions faced by both sides.

An irreverent tour of Britain under George I through George IV, bringing together the period’s monarchs, social customs, and unsettling details. Short factual sections and cartoons introduce readers to the stranger, harsher, and more memorable sides of Georgian life.

An interactive introduction to ancient Greece, filled with quizzes, games, mazes, and facts about Greek heroes, enslaved people, myths, and the Olympic games. Readers can also assemble a push-out Greek soldier and use the activities to explore daily life and legends.

A 2004 Horrible Histories sticker book by Terry Deary centered on the Romans. No reliable catalog synopsis was available to confirm its specific activities or contents.

This Horrible Histories volume explores Anglo-Saxon Britain through its invasions, customs, and everyday oddities. Terry Deary mixes historical facts about the Saxons with questions about their food, beliefs, luck, and battles with later Norman invaders.

A wide-ranging collection of strange, grisly, and amusing historical facts, moving from Roman graffiti and royal nicknames to punishments, odd foods, famous animals, and bizarre disasters. It is designed for browsing rather than following a single period or storyline.

A comic, fact-packed introduction to Stuart Britain, from James I’s accession through royal rivalries, religious persecution, the Gunpowder Plot, and civil war. It also explores strange customs and everyday life under the Stuart monarchs.

A lively history of Norman England centered on William the Conqueror, the Battle of Hastings, and the people who fought for power after 1066. It also ranges through Norman customs, crusading, piracy, and the unpleasant side of conquest.

A Viking-themed sticker and puzzle book that uses word games, picture challenges, and reusable stickers to explore Norse gods and Scandinavian raiders. Activities invite readers to stage battles, make offerings to the gods, and follow the logic of a Viking invasion.

A 2004 Horrible Histories activity book by Terry Deary focused on Victorian Britain. No reliable catalog synopsis was available to confirm its specific activities or contents.

Terry Deary examines the harsher and stranger sides of Victorian Britain, including crime, policing, inequality, and life for children and women. Martin Brown’s illustrations accompany stories and facts about the era’s criminals, social rules, and eccentric characters.

A Horrible Histories guide to London’s past, gathering gruesome, unusual, and turbulent episodes from the city’s history. Terry Deary approaches the capital through accessible facts and darkly comic historical details aimed at younger readers.

This hands-on companion to The Measly Middle Ages offers quizzes, games, mazes, recipes, and a press-out medieval knight. Activities and cartoons introduce aspects of medieval life, from knights and jousting to peasants and food.

A 2005 Horrible Histories sticker book by Terry Deary centered on the Stuarts. No reliable catalog synopsis was available to confirm its specific activities or contents.

A broad, illustrated trip through world history, from early people and ancient civilizations to wars and modern conflict. Short, comic sections focus on the disasters, strange customs, cruel rulers, and unexpected details that make history hard to forget.

A compact guide to medieval knights that looks beyond armor and chivalry. It covers training, tournaments, castles, weapons, battle injuries, and the rough lives of people caught up in wars and crusades.

This handbook explores the harsh reality behind pirate legends, from shipboard life and stolen treasure to mutiny, punishment, and famous raiders. Quick facts and cartoons show why the sea could be every bit as dangerous as the shore.

This illustrated handbook follows fighters from different eras, looking at how they trained, fought, survived, and sometimes failed. It combines famous battles and warriors with the dirtier details of weapons, wounds, discipline, and military life.

A fact-filled guide to witchcraft fears, magic, accusations, and trials through history. It explores superstition and persecution, showing how ordinary people could be blamed, punished, and killed when communities went looking for someone to fear.

Rescued from a dangerous life as an Edinburgh chimney sweep, Bairn thinks his luck has changed. Instead, his new job draws him into a plot against Queen Victoria, leaving him to wonder whether freedom has brought him closer to the gallows.

A young character is swept into a dangerous Tudor adventure centered on the Tower of London. Court politics, royal suspicion, and the threat of punishment turn this historical tale into a fast-moving introduction to the darker side of the period.

A quick, illustrated look at First World War trench life, covering mud, rats, lice, shellfire, food, medicine, and fear. It explains how soldiers on the front line endured the daily dangers behind the larger story of the war.

This handbook introduces some of history’s most feared and notorious people, from cruel rulers to criminals and traitors. Short profiles, lists, and cartoons examine what they did, why they were feared, and how their actions affected others.

This Roman adventure places its young characters near the dangers of life on the empire’s frontier. As conflict, harsh discipline, and the massive wall reshape their world, they must find a way through a crisis with consequences beyond their control.

In 1940, Alf Turner and Sally Midwell are evacuated after German bombing strikes Coventry. The countryside proves far from safe when Sally falls under the control of a frightening woman, and Alf must help plan a dangerous escape.

This guide examines the Blitz through air raids, shelters, blackouts, rationing, evacuation, and civilian life. It balances wartime facts with strange details about how families, children, and emergency workers managed during repeated attacks.

A collection of hundreds of jokes rooted in historical people, places, and events. Cartoons accompany the puns and gags, making this a humor-focused companion to the history facts and themes of the Horrible Histories series.

A large Tudor-themed activity book packed with historical facts about monarchs and executions, alongside word games, quizzes, and stickers. It offers an interactive tour of the Tudor court and its most notorious rulers.

A hands-on board book with five press-out projects drawn from historical settings. Readers can assemble models including a Roman arena, pirate, knight, executioner, and pyramid puzzle, then use the included play and construction ideas.

Set in the Viking age, this historical adventure follows young people caught between raiders, violence, and the ruins left behind by invasion. The story brings the fear and uncertainty of the period close while keeping the pace quick and readable.

A brisk history of espionage, secret messages, disguises, double agents, and dangerous missions. From ancient tricks to wartime intelligence, it shows how spies gathered information and why getting caught could have terrible consequences.

This illustrated guide introduces fifty notorious figures from history, grouped into categories such as assassins, rebels, criminals, rulers, and wicked women. Its profiles use varied formats, including stories, diary entries, mock newspapers, and fact files.

A humorous guide to life in ancient Egypt, covering gods, pyramids, mummies, pharaohs, Cleopatra, and Tutankhamun. Facts, cartoons, a timeline, and a mummy quiz explore both everyday life and the Egyptians’ stranger mistakes.

This collection gathers several Horrible Histories Gory Stories into one volume. Young characters face danger in ancient Egypt, Roman Britain, and Tudor England, combining fictional adventures with grim details from the historical periods behind them.

A lively guide to Dublin’s past, uncovering unusual people, rough politics, rebellions, disasters, and strange local stories. It turns the city’s landmarks into entry points for the grim, funny, and surprising events behind them.

This guide to Edinburgh uncovers the city’s darker past through old streets, royal drama, graveyards, crime, and ghostly tales. Short facts and comic illustrations make its long, often grisly history easy to explore.

A quiz collection centered on grisly and comic moments from British history. Readers test their knowledge of historical people, events, and unpleasant details through questions designed for the Horrible Histories television tie-in range.

From Roman Londinium to wartime bombing, this guide explores London’s nastier history. Fires, plagues, executions, crime, crowded streets, and odd local characters show how the capital grew through centuries of upheaval.

This handbook cuts through the polished image of medieval knighthood to reveal hard training, brutal battles, strange rules, and uncomfortable castle life. It is packed with fast facts about armor, weapons, tournaments, and medieval violence.

A gruesome guide to Oxford explores the city beyond its famous university buildings. It digs into strange crimes, local legends, dangerous pastimes, and the people whose less polished stories shaped the streets and colleges.

A comic guide to pirate life, covering crews, ships, treasure, punishment, and famous sea raiders. It exposes the hunger, disease, danger, and bad decisions behind the swashbuckling stories, with facts designed for quick browsing.

A young adventurer is drawn into the brutal, uncertain world of pirates, stolen treasure, and life at sea. With danger closing in from every side, the story uses a fast historical plot to show that piracy was far less glamorous than legend suggests.

This city guide looks past Stratford-upon-Avon’s Shakespeare connections to uncover its stranger history. Gruesome tales, local characters, old punishments, and surprising facts reveal a town with more than one famous story to tell.

Ten comic-strip episodes trace the Tudor period from the Battle of Bosworth through Elizabeth I. The book condenses major rulers and events into a brisk historical overview, with humorous details about the dynasty’s politics, wars, and executions.

This history guide explores witchcraft, fear, folklore, and the cruel trials that followed accusations. It mixes strange beliefs and magic tales with the real human cost of witch hunts, showing how dangerous superstition could become.

A fast-moving guide to warriors from different times and places, with facts about fighting, weapons, leadership, and survival. It looks at what battle demanded of people and why the stories behind famous fighters are often messy.

A funny, fact-filled guide to York’s past, from Romans and Vikings to medieval conflict and later city life. It follows the grim stories behind familiar streets, walls, prisons, and landmarks, with plenty of unpleasant local details.

A comic-strip survey of medieval knights, moving from legendary tales and English warfare to the Crusades. Ten illustrated episodes explore the violence behind chivalry, presenting the period in a fast, accessible nonfiction format.

A comic-strip introduction to Ancient Rome told through ten episodes about turning points and notorious figures. Short fact sections and annotated visuals add context on Caesar, Spartacus, the Colosseum, and the Great Fire.

An illustrated handbook about the First World War trenches, from mud and rats to gas attacks and shellfire. Short sections explain how soldiers lived, fought, communicated, and tried to survive one of history’s most punishing battlefields.

This history book examines crime and punishment through unsettling cases and strange laws, from executions to school discipline. It also includes a local-policing challenge and a game about escaping the Tower of London.

A whirlwind tour of catastrophic and violent moments from across history, from the Great Fire of Rome to the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. The book gathers battles, disasters, crimes, and other deadly events into an illustrated, non-chronological history overview.

A Christmas-themed Horrible Histories collection that explores the darker and stranger side of the festive season. Organized around the twelve days of Christmas, it ranges across traditions, food, animals, royalty, games, weather, and notable events from different eras.

A Christmas-themed sticker activity book filled with quizzes, historical facts, and more than 500 stickers. Its festive subjects include trees, puddings, reindeer, pantomimes, and curious seasonal customs, giving young readers plenty to read and complete.

A hands-on sticker activity book that races through more than four million years of world history, from the Stone Age to the twentieth century. It includes foul facts, over 300 stickers, and a fold-out timeline stretching more than three metres.

A pocket-sized guide to fifty kings and queens, concentrating on the ruthless, strange, and scandalous sides of royalty. Bite-sized entries and lists introduce historical rulers through fresh material, full-color layouts, and Martin Brown's illustrations.

A fact-filled survey of fifty British castles, spanning Roman times through the London Blitz. It explores sieges, spies, betrayals, revenge, and strange castle anecdotes, including haunted strongholds and improvised defenses, with Martin Brown illustrations.

A large miscellany of strange, gruesome, and comic history facts. Short pieces range across subjects such as Roman graffiti, punishments, royal nicknames, unusual beauty practices, animals, food, and famous rulers, making it a browseable collection rather than a chronological history.

An interactive, date-by-date journal that pairs space for readers' notes, drawings, and diary entries with a grisly historical fact for every day of the year. This color reissue of Dreadful Diary invites readers to create their own horrible history.

A countdown-style guide to fifty notorious figures from history, combining short profiles with themed facts and lists. It introduces gangsters, mass murderers, and other infamous people whose actions made them feared, alongside Martin Brown's comic illustrations.

This anniversary yearbook gathers horrible people and grim episodes from across history in a mock school format. Readers meet the class of 1066, investigate especially vile historical figures, and work through facts, games, puzzles, and activities.

A guided tour through fifty historic great houses in Britain and Ireland, tracing their stories from prehistory to today. It looks beyond grand rooms to ghost tales, betrayals, and the people connected with places from Holyroodhouse to Buckingham Palace.

A twisted school yearbook gathers historical figures into a class of 1066, complete with mock awards, foul facts, activities, and games. Created to mark 25 years of Horrible Histories, it surveys notorious people and events from across history.

This hands-on guide explores First World War trench life for British and German troops. Fold-outs, illustrated fact files, letters, and paper features cover rations, weapons, lice, gas masks, and the daily struggle to survive the mud and shellfire.

Presented as Henry VIII’s imagined diary, this illustrated history book follows key moments in the Tudor king’s life. It uses a humorous first-person format to introduce young readers to one of England’s most notorious monarchs and his era.

This illustrated, diary-style introduction enters the imagined perspective of Queen Victoria. Covering major events in her life and the history of her empire, it offers an accessible, humorous route into Victorian history for younger readers.

This illustrated history book traces the often hazardous story of human flight, from kite experiments and homemade wings to ballooning and the Wright brothers. It presents aviation pioneers, failures, and breakthroughs through facts, stories, and the series’ comic approach.

This illustrated nonfiction collection investigates ghost stories and legends from around the world and across history. It ranges from ancient Egyptian spirits and Celtic rituals to royal hauntings, Edinburgh tales, ghost hunters, and historical attempts to explain or banish the supernatural.

Told as Boudica’s imagined private diary, this illustrated historical book follows the Iceni queen through Roman rule in Britain. It covers her rise as a warrior leader, her relationships and tribe, and the rebellion and battles that brought her into conflict with Rome.

This Horrible Histories volume follows the history of railways around the world, from early British locomotives and railway labor to American surveyors and dangerous engineering failures. It presents inventions, accidents, tunnels, bridges, and industrial change in a newspaper-style format.

Written as William the Conqueror’s imagined diary, this illustrated account traces his life from Duke of Normandy to king of England. It covers his dealings with the Church and France, his relationship with Matilda, family feuds, and the Battle of Hastings.

This Horrible Histories volume explores the global story of cars and road transport. It covers steam-powered experiments, unusual vehicle designs, accidents, road raiders, supposedly cursed cars, and risky racing, using illustrated historical anecdotes and facts.

This illustrated history follows London’s River Thames through its grimmer and stranger stories, from crime and death to creepy creatures. It also visits the Frost Fairs, when the frozen river became a setting for remarkable public entertainments.

Created for the thirtieth anniversary of Horrible Histories, this illustrated roundup ranks history’s most dreadful examples in categories such as diseases, battles, emperors, punishments, schools, and jobs. It presents a series of irreverent historical top threes rather than a single chronological narrative.

This city guide explores Cardiff’s history through odd local tales, conflict, industry, crime, and larger-than-life characters. It looks beyond familiar landmarks to find the grim, surprising, and sometimes silly stories hidden in the Welsh capital.

A gruesome guide to Liverpool’s past, exploring the city through strange characters, crime, seafaring stories, and turbulent change. Short facts and comic illustrations uncover the darker history behind its famous streets, docks, and landmarks.

This fact-filled history explores the often surprising roles animals have played across time. Its subjects range from Stone Age sacrifices and Roman arena spectacles to a Victorian signalman baboon and the bat-inspired development of sonar.

A brisk, illustrated guide to the unpleasant history of toilets and sanitation. Terry Deary traces loo-related facts from ancient Roman hygiene practices to the invention of the flushing toilet, with the series’ characteristic focus on the messier details.

A funny, fact-packed guide to Bath that goes beyond its elegant crescents and Roman baths. It uncovers the city’s stranger residents, medical mishaps, crime, and historical disasters through brisk stories and gruesome details.

This guide to Glasgow digs into the city’s tough, funny, and surprising past. From industrial change and crime to unusual local characters and disasters, it offers a quick historical tour with the grimmer details left in.

Organized around the calendar, this illustrated history book supplies a gruesome, strange, or surprising historical event for every day of the year. Readers can discover which notorious figures and violent episodes share a birthday or date with them.

This illustrated compendium examines fifty notorious betrayals from across history. Moving from ancient stories to royal intrigues, it considers people who turned on friends, rulers, or countries—and the motives behind their disloyalty.

This history of football follows the game from its unruly medieval beginnings to later milestones, including the First World War Christmas match. It covers dangerous play, devoted supporters, injuries, and women’s place in the sport.