The writer hopes Rowan Atkinson could be among the stars of the broad screen version as he lets rip at museums for ‘killing interest’ in artefacts It is the educational franchise that just keeps on growing. Horrible Histories,the subversive and often scatalogical series of humorous books whose examination of the past in full, gory detail has gripped generations of children around the world, or is now poised to hit the broad screen.
It is the latest coup for an increasingly elastic brand that now boasts more than 100 titles – stretching from The Savage Stone Age to The Blitzed Brits – and which has sold more than 27m copies worldwide and been translated into 40 languages.
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Source: theguardian.com