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In 1993 Terry Deary came up with an idea to make history more interesting to get children to care. There are plenty of history books that tell you about [[Boredom Montage|castles, dates, politics, names, things and stuff.]]
'''Horrible Histories''' are full of battles, death, blood, guts, superstitions, gore, murders, comic panels and [[Department of Redundancy Department|guts]]. Pretty successful all in all; not only are there a lot of books but they are quite accurate—not really detailed, but [[Hollywood History]] it ain't.
The series proved hugely influential during the nineties and zeros, unleashing a raft of spin-offs and ripoffs, including ''Horrible Science, Horrible Geography, Murderous Maths, The Knowledge, Dead Famous, What They Don't Tell You About'', and various other series of diminishing success.
The series has been adapted into an animated television series which ran from 2001-2002, a radio series and [[Horrible Histories (TV series)|a live action series is now airing on CBBC.]]
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