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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 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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02:01:40

The BRUTAL Life of an Incan Llama Herder | History...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/08/07

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianTonight, you're not a noble, a warrior, or a name history remembers. You're something quieter—someone the empire counts but never sees. You're a llama herder in the Inca Empire, born into altitude and burden, tethered to the trail from your first breath. You carry tribute, you carry silence, and you carry the empire on your back without ceremony or rest.This journey through dust, stone, and obedience is not a tale

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02:01:40

The HORRIFYING Life of a Medieval Gravedigger During...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/08/07

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianStep into the crumbling boots of a nameless soul the world forgot — a medieval gravedigger during the height of the Black Death. In this immersive, slow-burning narrative, you won’t find knights or kings. Just blistered hands, bloated corpses, and the slow unraveling of faith, memory, and self. With each pit you dig, the world grows quieter — until even the bells stop tolling.Told in a calm, weary tone with dark

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The BRUTAL Life of a Persian Soldier under Xerxes |...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/08/06

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianYou are not a king. Not a noble. Not even a name in the annals of history. You are a conscript in the massive armies of Xerxes I — fed into the meat grinder of the Persian invasion of Greece in 480 BCE. This is not the story of glory at Thermopylae or triumph at Salamis. This is the story of what it was like to march, bleed, and rot in the dirt beneath those stories — forgotten, voiceless, expendable.Through the

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02:01:40

Why You Wouldn’t Survive as a WWII Truck Driver |...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/08/06

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianTonight on Drowsy Historian, you're not a general, a hero, or even a soldier anyone remembers. You're a WWII truck driver — a man with no armor, no weapon, and a barely running vehicle, hauling supplies across every front and through every hell the war could conjure. From the frozen wastes of Russia to the suffocating heat of North Africa, you drive through snipers, air raids, hallucinations, and machine failure —

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02:01:40

Why You Wouldn’t Survive as a Chinese Railroad Worker...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/08/05

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianIn this episode of Drowsy Historian, you are not a tycoon, a pioneer, or a name carved into the history books. You're one of the thousands of forgotten Chinese laborers brought to the American West in the 1800s — tasked with blasting through mountains, laying rail across barren wilderness, and enduring the contempt of a country that needed your labor but never wanted your presence. You will not be celebrated

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02:01:40

Why You’d Regret Being a Woman in Feudal Japan |...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/08/05

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianWhat was it really like to be a woman in Edo-period Japan?Not a warrior. Not a noble. Just… a woman. A daughter trained to be silent. A wife traded like rice. A mother whose worth depended on bearing sons. This slow, immersive historical journey puts you in her sandals — from childhood obedience drills to the quiet vanishing of old age. There are no great battles here, only the soft sounds of folding cloth and

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02:01:40

Why You’d REGRET Attending a Tudor Banquet | History...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/08/04

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianStep into the gilded nightmare of a Tudor banquet — where social survival depends on knowing which trenchers to eat from, when not to sneeze, and how to pretend rancid meat is a delicacy. This isn't your average historical reenactment. It’s a slow descent into grease-slicked etiquette, twitching meat, unblinking jesters, and public humiliation — all served under the flickering torchlight of power and paranoia

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Why You’d REGRET Being a Scottish Mercenary in the...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/08/04

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianYou’re not a knight. You’re not even French. You’re a half-starved Highlander shoved onto a French boat and handed a pike with a splintered shaft. Welcome to the glamorous life of a Scottish mercenary in the Hundred Years’ War — where the food is rotten, the boots don’t fit, and the only thing worse than the English are your own commanders.This sleep-friendly historical deep dive takes you into the mud, blood, and

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02:01:40

What It Was Like to Be Homeless in Ancient Greece |...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/08/03

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianYou’re homeless in ancient Athens — not a philosopher, not a warrior, just another hungry body fading into the marble backdrop. No scrolls will record your name. No statues will remember your face. As the temples rise and the plays unfold, you rot quietly in the sun, swatting flies and swallowing shame. This isn’t the Greece of legends. It’s the Greece of sores, hunger, and indifference — where beauty and cruelty

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02:01:40

The TERRIFYING Fate of a 1960s Soviet Cosmonaut |...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/08/03

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianIn this immersive historical bedtime story, step inside the quiet, harrowing descent of a forgotten Soviet cosmonaut in the 1960s space race. From silent railway platforms and photo ops under propaganda floodlights to the final, flickering hours alone in orbit, this is the fate they never televised.It’s not a heroic journey. It’s not a conspiracy theory. It’s what happens when ambition outruns empathy—and when

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02:01:40

The TERRIFYING Fate of a Victorian Cholera Victim |...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/08/02

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianYou didn’t die in battle. You weren’t the subject of a grand trial, a royal scandal, or a religious persecution. You just lived in a London slum in 1854, drank from the wrong pump, and died fast — alone, forgotten, and covered in your own filth. In this immersive, second-person historical sleep story, you’ll experience every stage of what it meant to be an ordinary cholera victim at the height of the Victorian

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02:01:40

What It Was Like to Be a Child Laborer in Industrial...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/08/02

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianIn this sleep-friendly deep dive into the horrifying reality of child labor during Britain’s Industrial Revolution, you’ll step into the threadbare boots of a boy fed into the machines and forgotten just as quickly. Through cotton mills, tenements, beatings, malnutrition, disease, and silence, this is not a story of resilience — it’s a story of routine. One no one wanted to tell. One most survived just long enough to

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02:01:40

The HORRIFYING Life of Charles II of Spain (The Last...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/08/01

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianCharles II of Spain was born into power, but his body—twisted by centuries of inbreeding—betrayed him from the start. In this immersive, second-person narrative, you are the last Habsburg king: a monarch who drools in council meetings, mumbles at ghosts, and unwittingly signs Europe into one of its deadliest wars. Your jaw doesn’t close, your heirs don’t arrive, and your court is more concerned with your death than

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02:01:40

Why You’d Regret Being a Woman Warrior in Feudal...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/08/01

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianIn feudal Japan, the path of a woman warrior was not marked by glory, but by silence. This is not a tale of cinematic heroism. It’s a slow unraveling — of expectation, obedience, resistance, and disappearance. You are born into duty, trained in shadows, and remembered by no one. Through smoke and blood, you hold a blade the world insists you never touched.Tonight, we follow the life of a woman who defended a home no

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02:01:40

The HORRIFYING Fate of a Roman Legionnaire in the...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/07/31

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianIn this quietly devastating, sleep-friendly video, you experience the horror of the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest from the inside — not as a general, not as a historian, but as a legionnaire with mud in your sandals, hunger in your gut, and fog choking your lungs. Day by day, the forest closes in. Food runs out. Orders stop making sense. The line dissolves. And the enemy? You don’t even see them coming.This is not a

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02:01:40

The HORRIFYING Fate of a WWII Comfort Woman | History...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/07/31

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianIn tonight’s story, you walk through the life of a young Korean girl taken during World War II and forced into the horrors of a military brothel. What follows is not loud, but it is devastating: the silence of survival, the emptiness of return, and the long shadow cast by a world that never wanted to remember.#ComfortWomen #WWIIHistory #ForgottenVoices #DarkHistory #BoringHistoryForSleep #HistoricalSleepStory

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02:01:40

Why You Wouldn’t Survive a Night with the Bloody...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/07/30

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianTonight, you’re not a hero, a villain, or even a particularly interesting footnote. You’re just a traveler — tired, hungry, and walking the wrong trail at the wrong time. The inn ahead looks like salvation: a warm fire, a hot meal, a kind smile. But this is Kansas in the 1870s. And the Bloody Benders are home.This slow, immersive descent follows your final journey down the Osage Trail and into the arms of America’s

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02:01:40

Why You Wouldn't Survive Bedlam Royal Hospital |...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/07/30

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianStep into the cold corridors of Bedlam Royal Hospital, where silence is not peace—and compliance is not safety. In this immersive, second-person journey through the 18th-century asylum, you are not mad. But that doesn’t matter here. From the moment the gate slams shut behind you, your voice, your name, and your identity begin to fade. What follows is a quiet unraveling, wrapped in orderlies' routines and doctors’

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02:01:40

Why You’d REGRET Being Henry VIII’s Physician |...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/07/29

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianYou were the king’s physician — and nothing more than a shadow with steady hands. In the dark corridors of Henry VIII’s court, survival had nothing to do with medicine, and everything to do with keeping your head down while the leg rotted. The wound festered. The politics shifted. The crown watched.This is the story of what it meant to tend to a dying king and a dying empire — one quiet dressing at a time. You didn’t

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