Horrible Histories – The Concert

Did you think history was all dusty textbooks and kind of boring lessons? Think again. BAFTA Award-winning CBBC phenomenon Horrible Histories is stepping off the TV screens and onto the stage at Liverpool Empire in 2026. Its live, loud, and, yes, a little bit horrible!

Poor old William Shakespeare has been tasked with creating ‘the greatest show on earth,’ and although he’s good, he’s not that good, and has quickly realised that pulling together history’s most unruly characters is quite a challenge.

Cue a cavalcade of monarchs, misfits and malcontents: Henry VIII in full bluster, Queen Victoria who is not amused in the slightest, and Boudicea, who has never been known for her calm negotiating style. Cleopatra, Queen Elizabeth and Napoleon turn up to join the fun, and just when it seems things can’t possibly get worse, Death himself makes an appearance. And then, because history has a way of kicking you when you’re down, Loo Man turns up.

The mayhem is fuelled by a live band performing the infamous songs that have already wormed their way into family car journeys across the nation. Expect toe-tapping numbers about Charles II, Dick Turpin, and the Vikings. Hopefully catchy enough that grownups may find themselves humming them at inconvenient moments… it’s fine to sing about poo in a work meeting, isn’t it?

Get ready for a perfectly awful event. It’s rowdy, it’s cheeky, it’s really quite disgusting.  Children will love it, adults will laugh their heads off (hopefully not literally), and together you’ll all leave with history lodged firmly in your head, set to music you’ll never, ever escape. Muhahahahahha!

So bring your best singing voices, a tolerance for dreadful puns and disgusting gags, and a sense of historical perspective. After all, if history has taught us anything, it’s that things can always get worse.