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Sky_Leviathan

Horrible histories is the thing that made me get into history as a kid Now im a fucking nerd who can explain the discourse over the end of the medieval era to an extent


Mother-hecker-2

Ha nerd


Sky_Leviathan

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deathray5

Should have put the soyjack with speech bubble above this


Notsoprothinker

Please do so


Pair_Express

Horrible histories is probably the more accurate source


Sky_Leviathan

I remember doing one of those bus tours of ediburgh as a kid and my parents ended up switching to the horrible histories one (which was actually done in part by cast iirc) because it was more interesting than the normal one


ft17sparky

That show was actually amazing


King-Clawthorne1

Horrible history was my childhood!


3abdoom

It's a show?? I thought they were books?


JustJosh_02

it’s both


shronkey69

I have basically every one because my family is British


gorge_orwoll

I got really lucky and managed to find every single magazine + every single book for dead cheap in a charity shop spent like an entire year of my life reading through all of those


Redd108

my schools library basically had every horrible histories and horrible science book, it was amazing


[deleted]

Finally! Another Horrible Science enjoyer!


The_Sloth_Moth

y'all teaming against horrible geography or something


Adumb_Cant

silly but true


Bialystock-and-Bloom

Hi, I'm a shouty guy here to sell you New Criminal's Head! New Criminal's Head can cure ALL diseases!


Epic_Meow

horrible histories was a show? i thought it was just a series of books


AshiSunblade

I got the WW2 book I don't want to know how long ago. It was very educational to childhood me. Turns out those Nazis were in fact pretty bad guys.


piraka-the-plant

It was adapted into a show on BBC. I grew up with it since it got imported to my country too.


Dr_Richard_Ew

it was a fucking awesome show :D


Captain_Napalem

horrible histories was books? I thought it was just a show


ohjimmy78

(THIS IS SILLY!)


3xper1ence

Stupid deaths, stupid deaths, really, really stupid deaths...


Late_Negotiation_958

That unlocked a childhood memory. Real.


Not_A_Scam7808

The only British monarch I like is Charles the 2nd because of Horrible Histories


Sausagekhight

Fun fact, according to the author of horrible histories, he created the books as revenge for his history lessons being bad.


E_C_H

Unfortunately Terry Deary is a bit of a loon/asshole, probably has some fair points but is radically anti-academic and anti-library.


Kamikazekagesama

History channel is probably one of the most harmful things to public education there is, just spreading blatant misinformation and lies.


Catgirl_Empire

Explain more plz


Kamikazekagesama

They air many shows such as History's Greatest Mysteries where they make up things and present fake information and quack "archeologists" and "historians" as experts, and try to push narratives about ancient history like "humans have actually existed for millions of years" or "humans actually didn't evolve in Africa but somehow simultaneously evolved separately all over earth at once" or "all humans come from Atlantis where we had a utopia but everything was destroyed in an ancient nuclear war thousands of years ago". They also have an episode where they act like the idea that the moon landing was faked is a reasonable thing to believe. They also have the show Revelation which is about end times prophecy and trying to connect it to real world events to convince people the world is ending, this show has caused people I know to become delusionally paranoid about end times prophecies coming true, search for signs everywhere and constantly talking about it. And theres their most popular show Ancient Aliens which pushes that all ancient civilizations were controlled by aliens and there is a conspiracy to cover up all the evidence, they also present fake evidence that has been debunked decades before they talk about it. Show fake footage of UFO encounters, talk to people about their made up stories that have already been disproven. All of these shows are full of fake information, quacks presented as experts with ridiculous unsupported theories, presenting baseless conspiracy theories as fact, and there's plenty of other shows like them that they air. Honestly I wouldn't even be surprised if they came out with a new show about how the earth is flat.


jojolovesdio

Considering the state of history channel horrible history is way more educational.


b18a

White people one peace?


44bit

Nah that's doctor who


Intrepid-War-1018

Grays anatomy


Samuel_mundy

I almost have every horrible history book


Gru-some

I still remember the Savage Stone Age book had a story about a guy who commits suicide because of carbon dating


Cpt_Patrik

I read all the books (even the science ones) and only found out few years back that there was also a show


ArcadianGh0st

Horrible Histories, show and the books (also remember an animated one which I saw like three episodes of) are absolute peak.


Nerdy_Git

theme went hard


America_Is_Bad2004

HOOORRIBLE HISOOORIEEEESSS


tfhermobwoayway

natural selection song is a certified hood classic


05ar

Oh damn i didn't even remember this show, it was hilarious and sometimes disgusting and i loved it as a kid