H orrible Histories: The Movie – Rotten Romans stars a slightly more star-studded cast than the TV series it’s based on. ), Donald Trump has tested positive for coronavirus, How Moon ice could fuel Japan's spaceships. In fact, it’s furthering it. If you're a fan of Horrible Histories on CBBC, then you may know that a brand new Horrible Histories film is out now. “But remember that each generation finds history again for themselves,” she explains when I point out the difference between my dad’s bookshelf and mine.

And that, argues  Chris Stokel-Walker, is something everybody can be thankful for. “A lot of history teachers are the same – we like all that as well. In 2013, Lisa Edwards, UK publishing and commercial director of Scholastic Corporation, described Horrible Histories as one of the company's "crown jewels", and said it is at an "advanced stage of evolution". “The focus is on making it seem fun and presenting the facts that are important in the story but also showing you what might be peculiar or quirky so that people get interested. Mar 30, 2015 May 18, 2015 / HHTV / 6 Comments It’s now official who will be casting who in the new series, which is said to be continued later this year! If it’s good enough for a leading academic with a degree from Oxford and a PhD from St Andrews, with more than 25 years’ experience teaching classics scholars, then surely it’s good enough for anyone? The Courage to Care by Christie Watson review: when will we start listening to nurses? “I think that Horrible Histories have had a huge impact in interesting a new generation in history,” says historian Mary Beard. Afterlives by Adbulrazah Gurnah, review: love and loss in German East Africa. “What Horrible Histories identified is something good history teachers have always known, which is the bits of history young kids like: farts and sex and death and blood and guts and stupidity,” he says. The uncharitable might say they’re dumbed down. Now, you can count stuffy history books among them. They’ve got a natural inclination to think history can be fun. While Deary’s works are just one part of a broader shift in taste, it’s hard not to see his impact on the change in style from Kenneth Clark’s 1969 television series Civilisation and the 2018 remake Civilisations, which took a much more personality-led, bottom-up, rather than top-down approach, to the grand sweep of history.

The books are categorically not history, and their author, Terry Deary, is not a historian by his own admission. It is said to air later this year-our guesses are either summer, or early Autumn. Simon Farnaby will play King George III, 11. Some of her students have grown up on the books and ended up taking her classes as a result of an interest in ancient history first sparked by Deary’s work. Because children come to history through the Horrible Histories series, it shapes their taste in history for the future, too.

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First published in 1993, the books have since become a CBBC television sketch series and, as of this Friday, a film. Who was complaining about the size of his trailer? A similar fascination in what we put into our bodies, and what comes out the other end (not a million miles away from the focus of Horrible Histories’ big screen debut) is the focus of a new exhibition about Pompeii at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford – about as far away from Sunderland and Deary’s call for class warfare as you can get. It’s a cultural phenomenon that has bequeathed Lucy Worsley cosplaying as Victorian housewives on BBC television, and paved the way for prurient beef-and-belching books such as Annie Gray’s history of what Queen Victoria ate.

The Horrible Histories series of books have been formative experiences for anyone born since the late 1980s. For a while lots of you have wanted to know who the cast of Series 6 are, and so we’ve put together some pics for you of the cast!

They look at the past with an inquiring eye.”. (Figures reported by The Telegraph showed that in the 2000s Deary sold more than £20 million-worth of books.). Jessica Ransom will play Mary Queen of Scots, 3. CBBC's biggest star from Wigan, Hacker the dog, went along to the premiere to get a glimpse at the new film and to interview some of the cast to find out more about it. Read our community guidelines in full, The latest offers and discount codes from popular brands on Telegraph Voucher Codes, Fact-checked rigour, low-brow humour - Horrible Histories: The Movie, Horrible Histories on stage, last December, 'The raw stuff of human life is the basis of the subject': Horrible Histories, Victoria Wood biography exclusive: ‘She made audiences laugh till it hurt and choked them up with sorrow’, What was The Queen like as a teenager?

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Horrible Histories is an educational entertainment franchise encompassing many media including books, magazines, audio books, stage shows, TV shows, and more.. The quirky, jaunty presentation of them has inspired a generation of historians to pursue their interests, and the style of both the books, TV show and now film combines high-brow, fact-checked rigour with low-brow humour about bums and bogeys. (More about the Series on the Series 6 page). “It means they have a touchpoint immediately and don’t come thinking history is boring. “Some popular things tone things down and dumb them down, but actually the Horrible Histories seem to make a good job of putting things across accurately as well as making them quirky.”. For punishment, Atti is sent to work in a cold and wet Britain where he also meets the Celts. But don’t think that Horrible Histories is ruining kids’ historical knowledge. 1. Nick Frost, Kim Catrall and Derek Jacobi take leading roles in the movie, which is based on the fourth book in the series.

And now we just wait to see who will next in the sensational sixth series! We already have a glimpse of some things that will happen based on the opening credits: Source- http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jan/06/rowan-atkinson-horrible-histories-blackadder-bbc, Series 7 Specials 1: Sensational Shakespeare, Series 7 Specials 2: Staggering Storytellers, Series 7 Specials 3: The Grisly Great Fire of London, Spartan High School Musical: Song & Lyrics, George IV: Couldn’t Stand My Wife: Song & Lyrics, William Wallace, Scottish Rebel: Song & Lyrics, Roman Emperors: They’re Bad: Song & Lyrics, William Shakespeare and the Quills: Song & Lyrics, Rosa Parks: I Sat on a Bus: Song & Lyrics, Charles Dickens: Miserable: Song & Lyrics, Owain Glyndŵr: First Prince of Wales: Lyrics, Pioneers of Transportation: Song & Lyrics, Matilda(s) and Stephen … and Henry: Lyrics, The Plays What I’ve Written: Song & Lyrics, Horrible Hearts Club: The History of Music Song, http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jan/06/rowan-atkinson-horrible-histories-blackadder-bbc. “I’m poisoning the minds of children,” he once said of his works.

It’s inculcated into their brain cells.”, The secret of the books, the TV show and now the film, says Tilbrook, is they’ve focused in with laser-like precision on the things we pay attention to from history.

Phillippo’s nieces are also avid readers of the books. Flick open one of the books and you’ll learn about the minutiae of troop movements and the geopolitics behind each decision. Millennials are held responsible for the death of many things. “I saw Toy Story 4 the other night and the trailer for Horrible Histories looked really good,” she says, singling out a line from the trailer where a gladiator trainer demanded of his protégé that they go out into the arena and give it “CX percent”. He abhors the way his books have become canon and foundational texts for people learning history; and would likely find it odd the way the books have spawned an entire franchise of different branches including the television show, stage performances and film. We urge you to turn off your ad blocker for The Telegraph website so that you can continue to access our quality content in the future. William Shakespeare has had a fairly difficult transition to the silver screen. Run your finger along the contents of the bookshelves my 67-year-old father has built up over the years and you’ll see austere, stern doorstops about grand parts of history.

She approves: “That’s a good joke”. Seeing that film on the silver screen will be a major moment for an entire generation of millennials – and those even younger – whose first interest in history was piqued by the slightly askance look at important historical moments written by Deary, a former drama teacher from Sunderland. But he does have a disdain, as reported in multiple newspaper profiles, of the traditional way of doing things. Horrible Histories: The Movie – Rotten Romans stars a slightly more star-studded cast than the TV series it’s based on. “One of the things Horrible Histories does well is it does both the social history and the big names and adventures,” she says. But if you've already read the books and watched the CBBC series, the film has a whole new storyline, new songs and laughs to keep you entertained. Phillippo has said she’ll be one of those lining up to buy her ticket to see the film when it’s released this week. “It may look staid to you. Read about our approach to external linking. Watch the videos to find out more about the film. Which cast member had to get his legs waxed for the film? It wasn't just history which Hacker learnt about, though.

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Directed by Dominic Brigstocke. You need to be a subscriber to join the conversation. Also, the fact we have seen they have a brand new opening sequence, unless it is shortened, … And one reason behind it, I reckon, is a collection of several dozen children’s books written by a Sunderland-based author. They’re personality-driven, focusing on the extraordinary lives of those behind the greatest events in history.