All Seasons

Season 8

  • S08E03 Chaotic Collabs

    • June 10, 2019
    • BBC One

    History tells of great minds coming together to achieve great things. It also tells of idiots combining to make an unholy mess. HH looks at some of the best and worst collaborations!

  • S08E04 Mind Your Manners

    • June 17, 2019
    • BBC One

    Fred Sirieix guides Rattus through the Horrible History of Manners, including the benefits of not holding farts in and Puritan dating,. And Jane Austen visits Historical Love Island.

  • S08E05 Fearsome Families

    • June 24, 2019
    • BBC One

    Queen Victoria lovingly forces several of her children to go on historical first dates, Leopold Mozart retires his 18-year-old daughter aged 18, and the Brontes sing about sisterhood.

  • S08E06 Bizarre Beasts

    • July 1, 2019
    • BBC One

    The history of our relationship with animals - Charles Darwin presents Yummy Planet, Elizabeth I’s menagerie has some 'lion trouble', and farting fish almost start a nuclear war.

  • S08E07 Moon Mayhem

    • July 8, 2019
    • BBC One

    Dara O Briain joins Rattus for a show marking the 1969 moon landings. The first use of rocket power, the Space Race, and poo floating in the Apollo 10 cockpit - it’s all here!

  • S08E08 Putrid Politics

    • July 22, 2019
    • BBC One

    Dani Dyer becomes Rattus’ political advisor as we look at everything from the birth of democracy to Margaret Thatcher having to change her voice so she would be taken more seriously.