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Historical Desktops

Horrible Histories sketches-Historical D

YE GOT MAIL

Some of history's famous faces log on to their Historical Desktop. Elizabeth I tries out online dating, Ethelred the Unready faces cyber-bullying and Thomas Jefferson spends big online shopping.

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The team also produced 4 internet safety videos for CBBC, using the same sketch format. These can be found here.

QUEEN CLEOPATRA

Would you add Cleopatra on Facebook? Well, Mark Anthony added her on Mummy-Bo and he's beginning to regret it.

Sketch from Series 2 Episode 2.

SKETCHES

  1. Cleopatra and Mark Antony (Series 2 Episode 2)

  2. Henry VIII: Dating and the Reformation (Series 2 Episode 12)

  3. Ethelred the Unready and Viking raiders (Series 3 Episode 8)

  4. Elizabeth I (Series 4 Episode 2)

  5. King John (Series 4 Episode 11)

  6. Neville Chamberlain (Series 5 Episode 11)

  7. William the Conqueror (Series 6 Episode 3)

  8. Emperor Nero (Series 6 Episode 9)

  9. William Shakespeare (2016 Specials 1)

  10. Samuel Pepys (2016 Specials 3)

  11. Thomas Jefferson (Series 7 Episode 7)

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Internet Safety sketches:

  1. Lady Jane Grey - internet viruses

  2. Victorian gentleman - surfing the web

  3. Saxon monk - posting online

  4. Guy Fawkes - privacy settings

PICTURES:

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