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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 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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02:01:40

The BRUTAL Life of a Tudor Lady-in-Waiting | History...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/06/19

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianStep into the shadowed halls of Tudor England, where elegance was armor and silence could save your life. In this immersive historical journey, we follow the brutal reality of a lady-in-waiting — from the suffocating rituals of courtly dressing to the quiet terror of a Queen's changing favor. This is not the romanticized version of royal life. This is what it really meant to survive in the presence of power.Expect

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02:01:40

Why It Was TERRIFYING to Be a Woman in Jack the...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/06/19

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianStep into the gaslit, fog-choked streets of 1888 Whitechapel — where survival isn’t safety, and being a woman means navigating judgment, poverty, violence, and fear on every corner.In this immersive, second-person sleep story, you are not a detective, not the killer, and not the headline — you're just one of the countless women trying to stay alive while the city looks the other way. From brutal labor conditions to

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02:01:40

Why You'd REGRET Being Marco Polo's Assistant |...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/06/18

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianYou thought it would be an adventure. A once-in-a-lifetime journey with history’s most famous explorer. Instead, you got dysentery in Bactria, frostbite in the Hindu Kush, and camel spit in your only blanket. From Venetian docks to Mongol palaces, watch as you survive (barely) the greatest overland expedition of the 13th century — while Marco Polo takes all the credit.In this slow, immersive, darkly funny historical

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01:41:30

The TERRIFYING Fate of a Burn Victim in 18th Century...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/06/18

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianIn 1700s Paris, fire wasn’t just a danger — it was a sentence. In this immersive historical journey, we follow the grim, slow unraveling of a survivor who endures not only the flames, but the brutal medicine, social rejection, and haunting aftermath that follows. Told from the second-person perspective, this story plunges you into the agony, isolation, and endurance of life after surviving something you were never

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02:01:40

Why You Wouldn't Survive Building the Great Wall of...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/06/17

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianWelcome to the Great Wall of China — not the one in the travel brochures, but the real one. The one built with blood, bone, and bureaucratic indifference. In this slow, grim, and darkly educational bedtime video, you’ll live the life of a forgotten laborer conscripted to the Empire’s most ambitious mass grave. You’re not a hero. You’re not a builder. You’re just one more body in the mortar.Through vivid, haunting

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02:01:40

The HORRIFYING Fate of a Prisoner in Unit 731 |...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/06/17

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianStep inside one of the darkest and least-discussed corners of World War II history. In this immersive, slow-paced sleep video, we walk through the harrowing experience of a prisoner in Unit 731 — Japan’s covert biological warfare and human experimentation program. Told in a calm, second-person narrative with dry, unsettling detail, this is not just a story — it’s a descent into a system where science was weaponized,

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02:01:40

Why You Wouldn't Survive Early Jamestown | History...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/06/16

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianThe Glorious Lie: Why You Wouldn’t Survive Leaving England for JamestownThey told you Virginia was a land of promise. Of gold. Of glory. But what they didn’t mention was the hunger, the desperation, and the slow unraveling of your mind and body before you even saw land. This episode peels back the propaganda and takes you on a grim, immersive journey through the first brutal steps of England’s colonial fantasy — a

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02:01:40

The TERRIFYING Fate of a Victorian Tuberculosis...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/06/16

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianTonight we’re not just coughing politely into a handkerchief — we’re diving headfirst into the gasping, sweating, slowly suffocating nightmare of a Victorian tuberculosis victim. You’ll live every fevered breath, every useless remedy, every wheezing moment of decline as society quietly blames you for dying the wrong way, in the wrong clothes, at the wrong income bracket.From tenement slums to death-hotel sanitariums,

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02:01:40

The HORRIFYING Fate of a Heretic in the Spanish...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/06/15

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianStep inside the chilling world of the Spanish Inquisition, where silence is never empty—and fear begins before the first scream. This image captures the quiet dread before the interrogation begins: a nervous figure, shackled in the corner, lit only by flickering torchlight, while two shadowed officials quietly prepare parchment and instruments of “spiritual correction.”In this immersive historical series, we explore

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02:01:40

The BRUTAL Life of a Harem Slave in the Mughal Court...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/06/14

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianStep inside the forbidden walls of the Mughal harem — where beauty was currency, silence was survival, and freedom was an illusion.In this immersive, darkly poetic journey, you are not a princess or a courtesan. You are property. Trained, adorned, observed, and forgotten — all within the velvet-draped cage of one of history’s most secretive and oppressive institutions.From the moment you're sold to the palace, to the

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02:01:40

The BRUTAL Life of a Eunuch in Imperial China |...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/06/14

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianStep inside the Forbidden City — not as an emperor, but as the most overlooked figure in imperial history.This immersive sleep video guides you through the brutal, quietly haunting life of a eunuch in Imperial China. From the moment of castration to the politics of silence, from whispered conspiracies to a forgotten burial, you’ll experience the palace through the eyes of someone who served it completely—and was

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02:01:40

The TERRIFYING Fate of an Accused Witch in 1600s...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/06/14

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianTonight, you’re not just hearing history — you’re living it.Step into the cracked boots of a woman accused of witchcraft in 1600s Europe — a time when paranoia burned hotter than reason and justice was mostly performance with a body count. From whispered rumors to show trials, sleep deprivation to the executioner’s blade, this is what it actually meant to be called a witch — whether you were one or not.Told in

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02:01:40

Why You Wouldn't Survive the Trenches of WWI | Boring...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/06/13

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianIn the trenches of World War I, death wasn’t a dramatic event. It was routine. Tonight’s story walks you through the grim reality of losing friends daily — until you stop feeling anything at all. There are no grand speeches, no heroics. Just mud, silence, and the quiet horror of learning to function while surrounded by ghosts. If you've ever wondered what it was really like to endure the Great War, this is the part

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02:01:40

The BRUTAL Life of a Roman Gladiator | Boring History...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/06/12

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianEver wondered what it was really like to be a gladiator in Ancient Rome?Forget the Hollywood heroics. This is the real story — the brutal, blood-soaked, bone-cracking reality of life (and death) in the arena. In this immersive sleep video, you’ll step into the sandals of a doomed fighter: sold into slavery, broken by training, dressed up like a mascot, and sent out to die beautifully for the amusement of

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02:01:40

Why Medieval Childbirth Was a Death Sentence | Boring...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/06/12

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianStep into the shadows of medieval Europe and experience one of history’s most dangerous and overlooked realities: childbirth. In this immersive, second-person narrative, you’ll live through the fear, superstition, agony, and silence that surrounded pregnancy and labor in the Middle Ages. There are no doctors. No pain relief. Just old cloth, whispered prayers, and a steady march toward an uncertain end.Told from your

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01:38:58

The BRUTAL Life of a Medieval Bastard | Boring...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/06/12

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianBeing born a bastard in medieval Europe wasn’t just a social inconvenience — it was a lifelong sentence of exclusion, humiliation, and legal invisibility. In this quietly brutal bedtime tale, we walk the mud-caked path of someone born into the wrong family, at the wrong time, under the wrong circumstances. From cradle to grave, discover how illegitimacy shaped every aspect of life: childhood, love, work, religion,

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01:41:30

Why Medieval Sieges Were a Living Nightmare | Boring...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/06/11

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianWelcome to Drowsy Historian, where history is slow, grim, and weirdly relaxing. In this episode, we take you inside a medieval siege — not the heroic, armor-clashing nonsense you see in movies, but the slow-motion disaster of real life behind crumbling walls. You’ll live it: the rumors, the lockdown, the rot, the rats, and the final, brutal breach.It’s a second-person descent into paranoia, despair, and the quiet

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02:01:40

Why You Wouldn't Survive the Silk Road | Boring...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/06/10

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianWelcome to the Silk Road — not the romanticized highway of cultural exchange you learned about in school, but the gritty, exhausting, lice-ridden reality of life as a 13th-century merchant. In this darkly immersive bedtime story, you’ll navigate deserts that want to kill you, camels that hate you, cities that rob you politely, and trade deals negotiated with one eye on the nearest latrine.This journey takes you step

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02:01:40

The TERRIFYING Fate of a Renaissance Syphilis Victim...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/06/10

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianSyphilis wasn’t just a disease — it was a slow, humiliating unraveling of the body, mind, and social standing. In this immersive historical bedtime story, we follow the terrifying journey of a Renaissance syphilis victim from the first subtle sore to the final stages of madness, decay, and isolation.Told in a calm, sleep-friendly voice with dark humor and rich period detail, this video explores every brutal stage of

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