Dorset Lives – The history of Horrible Histories
Published in February ’20
Martin Brown in his studio above a garage at home in Shapwick
‘WHAT I’VE realised since I came to Dorset is that history is not preserved in aspic, it’s part of people’s everyday lives, they live in it – it’s all around us.’
History is something that Martin Brown knows a bit about. Since he teamed up with writer Terry Deary in 1993 to create the first books in the Horrible Histories education-entertainment franchise his illustrations have featured in more than 32 million books sold worldwide and since May 1999 those drawings have been made in Dorset, mostly in a studio above his garage at home in Shapwick.
‘Horrible Histories has given me a broad, but very shallow, knowledge of British history. What I love about a lot of it is that’s it’s just there, part of today. I’ve also learned that you can never have enough poo…!’
Two decades after he arrived here Martin calls Dorset home. He also calls …
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