Horrible Histories
Overview
HORRIBLE HISTORIES® is the world’s bestselling children’s history book series – written by Terry Deary, illustrated by Martin Brown and published by Scholastic. Over 30 million copies are in print, and the series has been translated into 38 languages since the books first published over 30 years ago. Uniquely funny, fact-filled and unflinching, the books have inspired award-winning TV series, sell-out stage-shows, a feature film, exhibitions, attractions, magazines and games. Horrible Histories has been described as: ‘A cultural phenomenon’ (Daily Telegraph), ‘Brilliant’ (Mail on Sunday), ‘Anarchic’ (Daily Express), ‘A winning formula’ (Evening Standard) and ‘The cultural behemoth that has been merrily illustrating the gruesome corners of the past since 1993’ (The Times).
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Horrible Histories: All at Sea
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Horrible Histories: Angry Aztecs
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Horrible Histories: Awesome Egyptians (newspaper edition)
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Horrible Histories: Awful Egyptians
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Horrible Histories: Blitzed Brits
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Horrible Histories: Crackin' Castles
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Horrible Histories: Cut-throat Celts
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Horrible Histories: Dublin
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Horrible Histories: Edinburgh (newspaper edition)
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Horrible Histories: Frightful First World War
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Horrible Histories: Ghosts
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Horrible Histories: Gorgeous Georgians (newspaper edition)
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Horrible Histories: Groovy Greeks (newspaper edition)
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Horrible Histories: Henry VIII's Secret Diary
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Horrible Histories: Horrible History of the World (newspaper edition)
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Horrible Histories: Horribly Hilarious Joke Book
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Horrible Histories: Incredible Incas (newspaper edition)
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Horrible Histories: Measly Middle Ages (newspaper edition)
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Horrible Histories: On the Road
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Horrible Histories: Oxford (Newspaper edition)
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Horrible Histories: Paws, Claws and Jaws: The World's Wildest Animal Tails
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Horrible Histories: Queen Boudica's Secret Diary
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Horrible Histories: Queen Victoria's Secret Diary
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Horrible Histories: Rotten Romans
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Horrible Histories: Ruthless Romans (newspaper edition)
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Horrible Histories: Savage Stone Age (newspaper edition)
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Horrible Histories: Slimy Stuarts (newspaper edition)
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Horrible Histories: Smashing Saxons (newspaper edition)
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Horrible Histories: Stormin' Normans
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Horrible Histories: Stormin' Normans (newspaper edition)
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Horrible Histories: Stratford-upon-Avon (newspaper edition)
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Horrible Histories: Terrible Thames
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Horrible Histories: Terrible Tudors
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Horrible Histories: Terrifying Tudors
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Horrible Histories: The Truly Terrible History of the Toilet - Flush with Facts
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Horrible Histories: The Worst in the World
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Horrible Histories: Top 50 Kings and Queens
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Horrible Histories: Up in the Air
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Horrible Histories: Vicious Vikings
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Horrible Histories: Vicious Vikings
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Horrible Histories: Vile Victorians
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Horrible Histories: Villainous Victorians
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Horrible Histories: William the Conqueror's Secret Diary
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Horrible Histories: Woeful Second World War
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Authors
Martin Brown
Martin Brown was born in Melbourne, Australia, and has lived in England for over 30 years. He lives in Dorset with family. Arriving in London in 1983, Martin got a job as a bicycle courier – without any knowledge of the capital’s geography. It was short-lived. This was followed by a role in Harrod’s toy department: achievements included caricaturing customers and successfully wrapping a full-sized rocking horse. While working at London Graphic Centre, Martin decided to pursue his dream to become a cartoonist. Having access to the contact details of every publisher helped. One of the first publishers he contacted was Scholastic who commissioned him for the Coping with… books before uniting him with Terry Deary to create the world’s bestselling children’s history series, Horrible Histories. Martin’s recent books beyond Horrible Histories include his Lesser Spotted Animal series and Nell and the Cave Bear (both also written and illustrated by him). A proponent of ‘drawing is for everyone’, Martin inspires children (and their families) across Britain at festival appearances and shows.
Terry Deary
Terry Deary was born in Sunderland in 1946 and currently lives in County Durham. Terry is a former actor, theatre-director and Drama teacher. He spends his time writing and directing for his television production company, managing his website, terry-deary.com, and touring his Horrible Histories exhibition. Terry is the author of 116 books in the UK and over 250 more worldwide, mainly for children and teenagers, including the popular non-fiction series Horrible Histories. Horrible Histories were launched in 1993 and are now sold in 28 languages from Russia to Brazil, Scandinavia to China.
In 2003, Horrible Histories celebrates its 10th Anniversary!
In 1996 Terry was the best selling British children’s author with 5 of his books in the top ten best-sellers of the year (Waterstones Book Shop tables). In August 1997 he was still leading the way with thirteen titles in the top forty. (Bookseller listings). In 1999, The Daily Telegraph recorded that he outsold Enid Blyton by four to one and a Libraries survey made him the most-borrowed author of non-fiction in Britain – adult and children’s books. Terry currently holds 8 out of the 10 slots for ‘Most Borrowed Children’s Non-Fiction’ authors in the Public Lending Rights annual survey covering July 1998-June 1999. In November 1999 Books for Keeps magazine readers voted him “The outstanding children’s non-fiction author of the 20th Century”.
Terry’s district council have awarded Terry an “oscar” as one of their top citizens and Sunderland University have awarded Terry an Honorary Doctorate in Education (HonDEd) which was awarded in July 2000.
In early 1998, the Top Ten series was launched with two titles written by Terry, Top Ten Shakespeare Stories and Top Ten Greek Legends.
Terry’s latest additions to the Horrible Histories series are the Horrible Histories Special: France and Cruel Crimes and Painful Punishment. And if Horrible Histories wasn’t keeping him busy enough Terry has also contributed a range of titles to the True Stories series including True Mystery Stories and True Horror Stories.
The Horrible Histories exhibition is up and running in museums around Britain until 2003. He has also just set up a television production company and is negotiating to make a series of audio tapes and writing radio scripts for BBC World Service.
“If you haven’t come across ‘Horrible Histories’ before you’ve missed a true publishing phenomenon – Terry Deary seems to have invented a whole new genre with his series of books looking at history in an entirely different way.” Books Magazine, July 96
“I do not like reading very much and my Mum is pleased that I have found some books I like so much that I read them without being asked!” Fan letter from 10-year-old boy
For more information why not visit www.terry-deary.com or join his fan club?
Philip Reeve
Philip Reeve was born and raised in Brighton, where he worked in a bookshop for years while also producing and directing a number of no-budget theatre projects.
Philip then began illustrating and has since provided cartoons and jokes for around forty books, including the best-selling Scholastic series Horrible Histories, as well as Murderous Maths and Dead Famous.
He’s been writing stories since he was five, but Mortal Engines was the first to be published. Mortal Engines defies easy categorisation. It is a gripping adventure story set in an inspired fantasy world, where moving cities trawl the globe. A magical and unique read, it immediately caught the attention of readers and reviewers and won several major awards. Three more Hungry Cities novels followed, and Philip’s latest project are the Fever Crumb books, prequels set centuries before the events of Mortal Engines.
Philip has also written Buster Bayliss, a series for younger readers, and stand alone novels including Here Lies Arthur, which won the Carnegie Medal.
Philip lives in Devon with his wife and son and his interests are walking, drawing, writing and reading.