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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 Roman Slave | History For Sleep

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/07/19

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianTonight’s story isn’t about emperors or heroes. It’s about the forgotten, the broken, and the used — the people who kept the Roman Empire running while living and dying in chains. You are one of them. Enslaved. Branded. Erased. From the moment you’re captured to the moment you’re discarded, your life is not your own — and Rome barely notices.This is not a tale of triumph. It’s a quiet, brutal descent into what

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02:01:40

The HORRIFYING Fate of a Survivor in Hiroshima |...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/07/19

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianOn the morning of August 6, 1945, the city of Hiroshima woke to the sound of cicadas and the promise of another summer day. By 8:15 a.m., the sky split open, and nothing would ever be the same.This is not a story of generals or governments. It’s the quiet, unrelenting descent of a single survivor — from breakfast to blinding light, from smoke-choked streets to long-forgotten shelters. Told in second person, this

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01:38:53

The TERRIFYING Fate of a Spanish Flu Victim (1918) |...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/07/18

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianTonight, you're not a war hero. You're not even a name history bothered to remember. You're a soldier who survived the trenches of World War I, only to come home and be devoured by something invisible. In October 1918, it isn't bullets or bombs that end you — it’s the flu. The one no one talks about. The one that turned your lungs blue and your family silent.This is the story of your slow, quiet death — one of tens

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02:01:40

You’re a Comanche Warrior When the World Still Fears...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/07/18

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianTonight’s story takes you into the wind-swept vastness of the Southern Plains — not through the eyes of generals or settlers, but as a Comanche warrior, raised on horseback and shaped by a world in motion. You’ll live each moment of this life: the first bareback ride across open prairie, the hush of camp at dawn, the weight of watching invaders redraw your horizon — and the quiet legacy left when no one’s

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02:01:40

The HORRIFYING Fate of a Tasmanian Islander During...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/07/17

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianTonight, you are not a warrior. You are not a hero.You are a Palawa islander — and the ship has just appeared on the water.You don’t know what it is. You don’t know what it brings. But you will never be the same.This is not a bedtime story. It’s a quiet unraveling. A slow-motion erasure.From first contact to forced exile, from lost language to labeled extinction — this is the story of what happened when the British

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02:01:40

Why You Wouldn’t Survive a Plague Outbreak at the...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/07/17

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianWhat’s worse than serving at the Tudor court? Serving at the Tudor court during a plague outbreak. In tonight’s slow, grim descent through royal corridors and chamber pots, you’ll experience the full horror of what it meant to live — and die — in service to a palace that valued powder over hygiene, prayer over medicine, and perfume over plumbing.This immersive historical bedtime story pulls you through the stench,

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02:01:40

Why You Wouldn’t Survive the Winter of 536 AD (Worst...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/07/16

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianThe year is 536 AD. The sky is gray, the crops are dead, and the sun has vanished behind a veil of ash. You are not a king, a prophet, or a warrior. You're just a hungry, forgotten villager trying to outlast a year that never ends — a year many historians call the worst in human history.In this immersive, sleep-friendly historical nightmare, you’ll experience the slow unraveling of a world buried in volcanic fog,

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02:01:40

You Wouldn’t Survive the Bronze Age Collapse |...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/07/16

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianWelcome to the Bronze Age Collapse: a centuries-long nosedive into famine, war, disease, and the kind of cultural obliteration that makes archaeologists cry and economists lose sleep. One day there were palaces, international trade routes, and written records. The next, you're bartering sandals for moldy lentils while trying not to catch dysentery from your drinking ditch.This isn’t the fall of a single empire. It’s

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02:01:40

Why You Wouldn’t Survive the D-Day Landing | History...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/07/15

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianYou are not a war hero. Not today. You're cold, soaked, and seasick — crammed inside a steel box with nothing but a jammed rifle, raw nerves, and a prayer you barely believe in. On June 6th, 1944, you hit Omaha Beach with thousands of others, and every inch forward is a crawl through chaos, smoke, and sand filled with the dead.This is not the D-Day of history books. This is the crawl. The wait. The failure of plans

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02:01:40

You’re Trapped on the Roof During the LA Riots (And...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/07/15

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianYou’re not a hero. You’re a Korean-American teenager on a rooftop in 1992 Los Angeles — holding a rifle you barely know how to use, watching your family’s store while the city burns and the police drive past without stopping. You didn’t ask to be here. But no one’s coming. So you stay.This video explores the real story behind the so-called “Rooftop Koreans” — not the meme, not the myth, but the quiet, exhausted truth

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02:01:40

The HORRIFYING Fate of a Congolese Rubber Worker...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/07/14

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianBeneath the banners of civilization and charity, an empire was built on blood. In this episode, we follow the haunting, lived experience of a Congolese rubber worker during King Leopold II’s brutal reign over the Congo Free State. Through quiet, immersive storytelling, we trace the daily horrors of forced labor, mutilation, starvation, and spiritual collapse — all in service of wealth that was never theirs.This is

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02:01:40

The BRUTAL Life of a Continental Soldier | History...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/07/14

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianYou’ve heard the stories of glory. Now meet the misery beneath the myth.In this immersive, second-person historical journey, you are a Continental soldier—barely trained, barely fed, and barely holding it together. From rotting encampments to frostbite at Valley Forge, from starvation and mutiny to a victory that forgets your name, this is the raw, unromantic truth behind the American Revolution.Told in a calm,

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02:01:40

Why You Wouldn’t Survive the Spanish Conquest of the...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/07/13

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianYou’re not a warrior. Not a noble. Not a name anyone will remember. You’re an ordinary person in the greatest city on earth — until it begins to die.In this slow, second-person historical descent, you live through the Spanish conquest of Tenochtitlan as an Aztec commoner. You sell maize. You pray. You watch strangers arrive from the sea with steel, disease, and a god you don’t recognize. You lose your gods. Your

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02:01:40

The Bloody Life of a Maid in Anne Boleyn’s Household...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/07/13

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianHistory rarely remembers the ones who cleaned up after queens.In Tudor England, being a maid in Anne Boleyn’s household meant more than scrubbing linens and dodging noblemen. It meant surviving silence, secrets, and the slow unraveling of a royal life destined for execution. This is not Anne’s story — it’s yours. The hands that folded her gowns. The eyes that watched her fall. The name no one wrote down, but who saw

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02:01:40

The HORRIFYING Truth About Medieval Gynecology |...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/07/12

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianStep into the cold, stone chambers of medieval medicine — where a woman’s body was misunderstood, mistreated, and mythologized. In this immersive historical sleep story, you’ll become the subject of gynecological “care” in a time ruled by holy relics, wandering wombs, and remedies more dangerous than the illness. Told in a calm, weary voice and steeped in real historical detail, this darkly educational narrative

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02:01:40

The BRUTAL Fate of a Beast Fighter in the Colosseum |...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/07/12

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianTonight, you’re not a gladiator. You’re something worse: a venator — a beast fighter condemned to die for the crowd’s amusement. Thrown into the Colosseum with a trident, a costume shaped like a boar, and no hope, your job isn’t to win. It’s to bleed at the right time.This is the slow, devastating story of how Rome built its most beloved spectacle on bodies like yours — trained for a week, fed lies, dressed for

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02:01:40

The HORRIFYING Fate of WWI's Canary Girls | History...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/07/11

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianIn World War I, they weren’t on the front lines — but they were still in the blast zone. The “Canary Girls,” young women who worked in British munitions factories, faced slow poisoning, silent explosions, and a war that barely remembered their names. This immersive historical story follows their quiet courage and unseen suffering, from stained uniforms to fading photographs.This isn't just history — it's a memory

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02:01:40

The HORRIFYING Fate of a Lobotomy Patient in the...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/07/11

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianTonight’s story isn’t about war, royalty, or rebellion — it’s about what happened when silence was mistaken for healing. Step into the quiet, fluorescent-lit halls of a 1940s American psychiatric facility, where one woman’s mind was rewritten in the name of progress. From her first intake to the cold efficiency of a so-called miracle cure, this is a journey not through madness — but through its erasure.If you’ve ever

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02:01:40

The Delicate Brutality of Chinese Foot Binding |...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/07/10

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianTonight’s story is not about queens or conquests. It’s about the quiet agony wrapped in silk.You are not a soldier. Not a king. Not even a man.You are a daughter — born into a world that demands smallness.Small voice. Small steps. Small feet.And your body will be shaped, not by love, but by expectation passed down like heirlooms — soft cloth, sharp fingers, and a silence mistaken for grace.This is the life of a

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02:01:40

The DISGUSTING Life of a Rat-Catcher in Georgian...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/07/10

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianTonight, you’re not a noble, a soldier, or even a proper corpse. You’re a rat-catcher — damp, itchy, underpaid, and increasingly edible. In this slow, immersive bedtime story, we follow a single day in the life of a vermin man in Georgian London. Armed with a sack, a stick, and barely a functioning immune system, you’ll crawl through filth, barter with contemptuous merchants, hallucinate on the job, and get judged by

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