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History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian

Drowsy Historian

History For Sleep delivers slow, calm, and slightly unsettling historical storytelling that makes dozing off educationally depressing. Brought to you by the Drowsy Historian, each episode is 1–2 hours of immersive bedtime history with just enough absurd detail to keep you listening — until you aren’t. Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorian As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying p

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02:01:40

The TERRIFYING Fate of an Opium Addict in 1897...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/08/18

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianTonight, you’re not a villain. Not a victim. Not a statistic. You’re just one more man on the margins — coughing, limping, fading beneath the flicker of Seattle’s gaslamps in 1897. You didn’t mean to end up here. You only needed a place to sleep. But the basement was warm, the pipe was passed, and now the city forgets you one day at a time.This is the horrifying life of an opium addict in turn-of-the-century

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02:01:40

Why You’d Regret Being a Redcoat in the American...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/08/17

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianYou’re not a tyrant. Not a monster. Not some sneering villain in a powdered wig. You’re a working-class Redcoat — conscripted or tricked into wearing the uniform that history decided everyone should hate.This is not a story of glory. It’s a story of hunger, dysentery, marching through swamps, and being shot at by farmers who disappear into the trees before you can reload. It’s the slow unraveling of a life you

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The BRUTAL Life of a Male Concubine in Imperial China...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/08/16

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianYou are beautiful. Obedient. Silent. And that is why they chose you.Tonight, you're not a prince, a scholar, or even a servant with a name. You're a male concubine—handpicked to please, trained to disappear, and slowly unmade inside the red-lacquered walls of the Forbidden City. In this quietly horrifying tale, we follow your life from selection to erasure: the whispered silks, the perfumed traps, the gaze of an

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02:01:40

The MISERABLE Life of a Medieval Court Jester |...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/08/16

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianTonight’s story is not about kings or knights, but about the man in motley—the one forced to laugh, juggle, and mock his own suffering for the amusement of those in power. The story follows the path of a child dragged into court to play the fool, where every joke is a risk and every silence, a warning. Behind the bells and slapstick lies humiliation, isolation, and a constant tightrope walk between survival and

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02:01:40

Why You Wouldn’t Survive Caesar’s Conquest of Gaul |...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/08/15

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianYou’re not a Roman. You’re not a senator or a soldier. You’re just a young Gallic villager—barefoot, underfed, and wholly unprepared for the storm that’s coming. Julius Caesar is crossing the Rubicon of your homeland, and his legions aren’t here for diplomacy.This is the horrifying, slow-motion collapse of your world—from the creaking palisades of your hillfort to the smoking ruins of Alesia. You’ll watch your

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02:01:40

The HORRIFYING Fate of the Fishermen Caught in a U.S....

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/08/15

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianIn 1954, a group of Japanese tuna fishermen aboard the Daigo Fukuryū Maru witnessed the unimaginable—a blinding white sky, a silent sea, and the beginning of a nightmare they couldn’t yet understand. This slow, immersive story walks you through the quiet horror of their experience—before the headlines, before the protests, before the fallout settled.Told in calm, second-person narration, this video captures the

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02:01:40

Why You’d REGRET Joining Buffalo Bill’s Wild West...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/08/14

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianStep right up to a world of cardboard saloons, malfunctioning buffalo costumes, and dreams stitched together with frayed rope and gunpowder. In tonight’s gently absurd bedtime descent, you are not a gunslinger, a sharpshooter, or even a particularly skilled rider. You are a nameless assistant in Buffalo Bill Cody’s traveling Wild West Show—a global theatrical spectacle where history gets rewritten nightly and the

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02:01:40

Why Being a Gentleman in the 18th Century Was a Slow,...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/08/14

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianStep into the powdered world of Georgian Britain—where status is everything, and everything is quietly falling apart. In tonight’s immersive sleep story, you are not a king or a peasant, but something far more exhausting: a gentleman. Groomed from birth to maintain appearances, you’ll endure boarding school beatings, salon performances, debt collectors, and brandy-soaked regret. Beneath the velvet waistcoats and

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02:01:40

Why You’d Regret Being a Renaissance Executioner |...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/08/13

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianTonight, you’re not a noble, a peasant, or even someone the town bothers to remember. You’re the man behind the axe. The one they pretend not to see—until they need you.In this immersive, second-person historical story, you’ll walk the lonely, blood-soaked path of a Renaissance executioner: a feared and forgotten tradesman responsible for carrying out the brutal will of the law. You weren’t born for this work. But

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02:01:40

Why You Wouldn't Survive as a Medieval Street Urchin...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/08/13

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianYou’re not a knight. Not a monk. Not even a farmer. Tonight, you’re just a forgotten child slumped outside a church, hoping someone leaves behind a crust of bread. In this immersive sleep story, we follow the quiet, brutal life of a medieval beggar—from birth in a freezing lean-to, to sickness under a stone bridge, to prayers unanswered in the shadow of the wealthy.Told in calm, slow narration with dark historical

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02:01:40

Why You Wouldn’t Survive Crossing the Bering Strait...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/08/12

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianTonight, we travel back over 20,000 years, to a time when the world was locked in ice and the only way forward was into the unknown. You’re not a conqueror, or a warrior, or even someone with a name. You’re just one of many—tired, hungry, and half-frozen—following your kin across the endless white of Beringia, the land bridge between Siberia and what will one day be called Alaska. There are no maps. No rescue. Just

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02:01:40

Why You Wouldn’t Survive as a WWI Tunnel Digger |...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/08/12

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianTonight, you’re not in the trenches. You’re far beneath them. You’re a British sapper on the Western Front—a miner turned soldier—scraping through pitch-black clay beneath No Man’s Land, listening for the tremor of German boots in the wall. There are no medals here. No parades. Just silence, sweat, and the constant threat of being buried alive. You live by the sound of shifting earth and die without a name.This is

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02:01:40

What It Was Like to Stay In a Victorian Workhouse |...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/08/11

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianTonight on Drowsy Historian, you are not a Dickensian caricature or a nameless extra in a morality tale. You are a real human being caught in the gears of Victorian England’s most merciless institution—the workhouse. From the cold stone floors to the flavorless gruel, the soul-crushing sermons to the silence between beatings, you endure the bureaucracy of survival, one damp, aching morning at a time. There's no

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02:01:40

What Was It Like to Attend the First Thanksgiving |...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/08/11

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianWhat was it like to sit through the uneasy peace of the First Thanksgiving—knowing winter loomed, death had already visited, and your hosts might not always be so generous? In this immersive, second-person sleep story, you’re not a pilgrim hero or a history-book icon. You’re just one settler—cold, hungry, and haunted—trying to make sense of a fragile alliance and a feast you didn’t earn. Watch the firelight flicker

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02:01:40

Why You’d Regret Being a Constable in Tudor England |...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/08/10

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianTonight, you’re not a knight, a noble, or even a criminal with a good story. You’re a constable in a small Tudor town—a man too poor to be respected, too official to be liked, and too tired to care. You’ll spend your week chasing thieves with no weapons, enforcing laws you barely understand, and getting blamed for everything from street brawls to sausage theft. You’ll be spat on, bribed, ignored, and occasionally

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02:01:40

Why It Sucked to Be a Medieval Serf | History For Sleep

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/08/10

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianTonight, you are not a knight, a lord, or a monarch. You are something far lower — a medieval serf. Bound to land you don’t own. Controlled by rules you didn’t write. Praying to gods who may not be listening. In this slow, immersive journey, you’ll live out the quiet misery of a life spent surviving on scraps, caught between famine and faith, toil and silence.From freezing huts to smoke-filled chapels, you’ll

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02:01:40

What Was It Like to Be a Female Pharaoh in Ancient...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/08/09

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianTonight, we descend into the forgotten reign of a woman who dared to rule as Pharaoh — not as queen, not as consort, but as king. From divine birth myths and courtly silences to stone-carved power and the slow erosion of legacy, you’ll live her life from the moment she inherits power to the day her name is chiseled out. This is not a story of glory. It’s a story of burden — of building to be remembered, only to be

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02:01:40

Why You'd REGRET Being a Soviet Sniper in WWII |...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/08/09

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianTonight on Drowsy Historian, you are not a hero. You are a Soviet sniper, conscripted into a war that doesn’t care if you live, die, or disappear. From frostbitten alleyways in Leningrad to silent watchtowers over broken streets, your victories are measured in bodies—until you stop counting. As the war grinds on, so do you—numb, unthanked, and quietly unraveling. No glory. No name. Just orders, cold hands, and the

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02:01:40

What Was It Like to Be the Last Samurai? | History...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/08/08

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianTonight, we follow the quiet, fading path of a man born into a dying tradition. You are the last in a long line of samurai—raised not for battle, but for ceremony, for silence, for the memory of honor in a world that no longer honors you. Through cold courtyards and unspoken farewells, through ritual without meaning and loyalty without reward, your story unfolds—not with a roar, but with a breath. This is not a

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02:01:40

The BRUTAL Life of a Servant in Colonial Singapore |...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/08/08

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianTonight, you’re not a merchant, a soldier, or a master of empire. You’re a servant—a barefoot South Indian laborer in the back courtyards of colonial Singapore. You scrub, carry, fetch, and bleed in silence. No name, no wage, no voice. The bungalow’s floors shine, the bell rings, and the dog gets fed. But no one remembers who cooked the rice or cleaned the blood.This is not a tale of rebellion. It’s not a story of

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