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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

Why Being a Medieval Midwife Was a Death Sentence |...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/06/29

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianStep into the silent, bloodstained corners of medieval life — not as a noble, not as a knight, but as a village midwife. In this darkly immersive, second-person sleep story, you’ll experience the brutal truth of a role few survived and fewer were ever thanked for. From blood-soaked straw to whispered accusations of witchcraft, you walk the thin line between reverence and blame — holding lives in your hands while the

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02:01:40

The BRUTAL Life of a Pharaoh's Servant | History For...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/06/29

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianWhat was it like to be a servant in ancient Egypt? Not a scribe. Not a priest. Just one of the invisible laborers who scrubbed floors with broken brooms, hauled offerings through the heat, and died nameless beneath the very monuments they built.This is not the Egypt you’ll find in textbooks or museums. This is the view from the bottom — sunburned, overworked, and easily replaced. Across fifteen sections, we walk

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02:01:40

Why You Wouldn't Survive the Dust Bowl | History For...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/06/28

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianTonight on Drowsy Historian, we step into the slow-motion disaster that was the Dust Bowl — not as an outsider, but as someone living it. You’re not a pioneer. You’re not a symbol. You’re just one of thousands of ordinary farmers who watched the sky turn black, the earth turn to ash, and the future turn into something quiet and cruel.From the hopeful lies of the Homestead Act to the biblical arrival of dust storms,

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02:01:40

You're in Pompeii When the Volcano Erupts | History...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/06/28

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianTonight, you're not a Roman senator or a legendary survivor. You're just another ordinary resident of Pompeii — sunburned, exhausted, and entirely unprepared for the day your city vanishes beneath ash.In this immersive, slow-burning historical sleep story, we follow the final hours of Pompeii not through myth or marble, but through the eyes of someone caught in the middle — choking, stumbling, too human to be

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02:01:40

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

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/06/27

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianYou arrive in Shanghai looking for adventure. You leave as a ghost no one remembers.Welcome to the slow, smoky collapse of a life undone — not by war, but by commerce.In this immersive, softly narrated historical story, you’ll follow the descent of one lost soul in 19th-century Shanghai as they fall into the grip of the British Empire’s most profitable addiction: opium. From your first drag in a crumbling den to your

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02:01:40

The BRUTAL Life of a Napoleonic Soldier | History For...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/06/27

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianIn tonight’s slow descent through history, we follow the brutal, bitterly pointless life of a Napoleonic soldier. From forced conscription and lice-ridden camps to frostbite in Russia and forgotten death in a tavern attic, this episode explores the war that promised glory and delivered silence.Expect no romance. No glory. Just mud, blood, and the quiet unraveling of a man crushed by empire, forgotten by peace, and

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02:01:40

Why You Wouldn't Survive the Industrial Revolution |...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/06/26

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianStep into the smog-choked streets of the 19th-century industrial city, where childhood ends early and survival begins at dawn. In this haunting tableau, we witness the quiet struggles of children worn down by soot, cold, and endless labor. As factory chimneys belch smoke into the sky and cobblestones glisten with runoff, life continues—unnoticed and unkind.This video is part of a series exploring the overlooked human

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02:01:40

Why It Was BRUTAL to Be a Woman in Tudor England |...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/06/26

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianTonight, you’re not royalty. You’re not a legend. You’re not even safe.You’re just a woman in Tudor England — and that’s all it takes to guarantee a life of silence, suffering, and survival without sanctuary.In this immersive, slow-burning bedtime story, we walk step-by-step through the unspoken daily reality of a Tudor woman’s life: from girlhood to grave, from blood to prayer, from obedience to erasure. There are

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02:01:40

Why You Wouldn't Survive a Soviet Gulag | History For...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/06/25

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianStep into a world of frostbitten silence and quiet despair. This visual narrative explores the daily reality of life in a Soviet labor camp—told not through dialogue, but through haunting imagery. From the dim barracks to the frozen forests, each frame captures the weight of survival under an unforgiving sky.Inspired by historical accounts and rendered in a somber, oil-painting style, this video traces the blurred

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02:01:40

Why You Wouldn't Survive the Titanic | History For Sleep

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/06/25

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianApril 15, 1912. The Titanic has sunk—but the story didn’t end in the freezing waters of the North Atlantic. In the months that followed, polished shoes stepped over ghosts, and polished speeches smothered the screams. This video takes you inside the parliamentary inquiries, where survivors were ignored, steerage was forgotten, and tragedy was translated into tidy charts and sanitized testimony.From locked gates to

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02:01:40

Why Tudor Food Was Disgusting and Deadly | History...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/06/24

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianTonight on Drowsy Historian, we’re traveling back to Tudor England — but not for courtly intrigue or royal gossip. No, tonight’s horror is on your dinner plate.From plague-ridden pottage and gravel-filled bread to aristocratic sugar sculptures laced with lead, Tudor cuisine was less about flavor and more about survival (or not). Whether you were a peasant gnawing on stale rye or a noble choking on a swan stuffed with

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02:01:40

Why You Wouldn't Survive the Children’s Crusade |...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/06/24

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianYou were just a starving child in 1212—barefoot, malnourished, and following a boy who claimed God would part the sea. He didn’t.Welcome to the tragic, surreal nightmare that was the Children’s Crusade. In this immersive, slow-paced historical journey, we walk in your tattered footsteps—through mud, hunger, disease, betrayal, and blind faith. There’s no glory here. No salvation. Just the long, fading echo of a

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02:01:40

Why You Wouldn't Survive Being a Chernobyl Liquidator...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/06/23

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianYou’re not a soldier. You’re not a scientist. You’re just a name on a list — and that list just sent you into the worst nuclear disaster in human history.Tonight, we follow your footsteps as a Chernobyl liquidator: drafted with no briefing, dressed in gear barely fit for gardening, and handed a dosimeter that might as well be a paperweight. You’ll clear radioactive graphite by hand. You’ll sleep in tents that reek of

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02:01:40

Why You Wouldn't Survive as a Tunnel Rat in Vietnam |...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/06/23

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianTonight, we’re crawling into the suffocating underworld of the Vietnam War — not as a general, not even as a soldier with a fighting chance, but as the smallest guy in the platoon. You’ve been “volunteered” to belly-crawl into pitch-black tunnels full of traps, snakes, and silence thick enough to crush your thoughts. Armed with a pistol, a dim flashlight, and a healthy fear of everything, you're about to discover why

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02:01:40

The HORRIFYING Life of a Medieval Peasant With Stone...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/06/22

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianYou are a medieval English peasant — poor, tired, and already halfway broken by life. And now your body has decided to finish the job. One limb at a time. Without warning. Without mercy. You’re not cursed. You’re not possessed. You’ve just been born with one of the rarest, cruelest medical conditions in human history: Stone Man Disease.This immersive, second-person bedtime documentary walks you through the

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02:01:40

Why It SUCKED to Be a Teen in Medieval England |...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/06/22

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianBeing a teenager has never been easy — but in medieval England, it was a waking nightmare. In this immersive, second-person sleep video, we drag you through the miserable, mucky reality of adolescence in a time without privacy, plumbing, or pity. You’re not a hero, not a chosen one — just another forgettable teen lost in the system, where puberty meets porridge and hope dies quietly beside a freezing hearth.From body

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01:43:53

Why Life Was BRUTAL in Medieval Ireland | History For...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/06/21

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianWelcome to the brutal reality of medieval Ireland.In this immersive, darkly funny sleep-history video, we take you through the slow, rain-soaked misery of daily life as an ordinary peasant — from the moment you’re born screaming into a mud hut, to the moment you die forgotten beneath the gray sky. You’ll live through hunger, cold, disease, religious guilt, clan feuds, English invasions, and the general indignity of

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02:01:40

Why You Wouldn't Survive the Tower of London |...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/06/21

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianWelcome to the Tower. You’re not here for a tour. You’re here to disappear.In this immersive, second-person historical narrative, we guide you through the grim, claustrophobic reality of life (and death) inside one of Britain’s most infamous prisons: the Tower of London. From your arrival through Traitors’ Gate to the cold stone of your cell, the hunger, the interrogations, the ghosts, and finally — the block — this

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01:43:53

The BRUTAL Life of an Ottoman Prince | History For Sleep

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/06/20

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianYou were born a prince — but that’s where the good news ends.In this slow-burning descent through silk-draped paranoia, we explore the terrifyingly elegant prison that was the Ottoman imperial Cage (Kafes). From your birth in silence to your death in ceremonial isolation, every step of your life is gilded, guarded, and watched — not for protection, but for control. You’re not a boy. You’re a threat. You’re not raised

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02:01:40

The HORRIFYING Reality of Surgery Before Anesthesia |...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/06/20

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianBefore anesthesia, surgery wasn’t just dangerous — it was a waking nightmare. In this immersive historical journey, we take you inside the dim, blood-soaked world of 19th-century surgery, where pain was the procedure and speed meant survival. From grim operating theaters to infection-ridden recovery wards, this episode explores the brutal reality of being cut open when mercy hadn’t been invented yet.Told in a slow,

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