Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Gossip Guide Humor in Live-Action Form

Lauren just brought to my attention that a book series I enjoyed in my carefree years, Horrible Histories, is now producing shorts and putting them on Youtube. I totally geeked out. Here is Georgian Doctor and The Four Georges.






Meanwhile, the book series should grace history-phile's library. They mix fact with humor. My copy of The Groovy Greeks is practically destroyed due to frequent reading. Books in the series that are a little more appropriate for this particular blog would probably be England and Gorgeous Georgians.

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7 comments:

  1. HeidenkindNovember 12, 2009 at 1:37 AM

    So, how were Georgian doctors different from modern doctors again? ;)

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  2. ClaudiaNovember 12, 2009 at 2:16 AM

    I am seriously living in the wrong country! Great Video!
    Will repost the four Georges on my blog. It's just so fitting in there... ;-)

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  3. RoselNovember 12, 2009 at 11:45 AM

    Fantastic!
    It's like the Reduced Shakesspeare Company for kids (and history nuts ;)

    I used to have the Terrible Tudors and Vile Victorians, they got read a lot.

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  4. Júlia Durand November 12, 2009 at 11:59 AM

    Wow, I never thought such thing existed! I have I don't know how many horrible histories books, and coincidence, I started re-reading them yesterday. I have to check those mini-series! Thanks so much Heather! By the way, my Groovy Greeks books is also overused...

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  5. AnonymousNovember 12, 2009 at 12:05 PM

    I love the 4 Georges vid.. as does every other 18th-Century Historic Re-enactor I know and with whom I have shared it!

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  6. Heather CarrollNovember 12, 2009 at 4:12 PM

    I LOVE The Reduced Shakespeare Company. I was introduced to them when I saw them live in Leicester Square. I didn't know they did children's things now.

    Glad everyone is enjoying these as much as I!

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  7. RoselNovember 14, 2009 at 6:40 PM

    Oh I don't know if the Reduced Shakespeare Company do do kids things, but it's very much how they might do it if they did.

    The lastest one of theirs I heard was a Reduced History of the three political parties in the UK>

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