Horrible Histories Gruesome Guides Books in Order

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.