Horrible Histories - Series 1-6 [DVD]

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In this sketch, Florence Nightingale says that she rejected the Jamaican-born Seacole's application to Nightingale's Crimean nursing corps because it was open to "British girls" only.

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It maintains the franchise's overall irreverent but accurate focus on the dark, gruesome or scatological aspects of British and other Western world history, spanning predominantly from the Stone Age to the post- World War II era. From the Rotten Romans, Vicious Vikings and Awful Egyptians to the Slimy Stuarts and Terrible Tudors, Horrible Histories covers the funniest, yuckiest and most gruesome bits of history for kids. If you are in the North America, look out for US/Canadian flag icons on popular product listings for direct links. While BBC executives in large part were willing to concede the requirements of reflecting historical realities, some topics, notably suicide, needed careful handling to avoid potentially negative impact on younger viewers. These were rewritten as needed under Norris' supervision to ensure as much factual information as possible was included.

Based on the bestselling series of books for kids (and for adults, but they just won't admit it), Horrible Histories is an anarchic, surprising and unconventional take on history's most gruesome and funny moments. The TV series used the Horrible Histories brand, logo and associated trademarks under licence from publisher Scholastic Books.

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Clare Heal of the Daily Express, in her review of the third series, praised the show's "spot-on spoofs of modern telly" and agreed that "There's no particular target audience but pretty much anyone of any age will find something in there for them". Hit sketch show based on surprising facts from world history, inspired by the hit children's book series. The show sometimes acknowledged particularly emotive subject matter (the World War I Christmas truce, for example) by following up the sketch not with a joke, but a more sombre elaboration of the less comedic details.Recurring characters were if at all possible played by the actor who had originated the part, leading to the development of several signature roles, as for example Baynton's Charles II, Jim Howick's Shouty Man, Rickard's Bob Hale, Willbond's Henry VIII, Martha Howe-Douglas's Elizabeth I, Simon Farnaby's Death and Sarah Hadland's Victoria of Great Britain. He finally agreed to the new project on the condition that it be explicitly "horrible, funny and true". They took inspiration from such quintessentially British historical-comedy classics as Blackadder and the Monty Python films. However, after the creative team noted the critical and popular success of the major exception ("Born 2 Rule", which featured King Georges I–IV performing in the style of a boyband) the decision was taken from the second series onwards to continue in that vein. Individual sketches and songs were cast by the production team, sometimes acting on input from the show's stable of performers themselves.