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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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01:32:30

How Did Medieval People Deal With Toothaches? |...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/08/27

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianTonight, you're not curled in a dentist’s chair with soothing music and numbing gel. No — tonight, you're in a smoky cottage, jaw aching, vision blurring, and no one alive knows what a germ is. You’re a common laborer in medieval Europe, and something in your mouth has gone terribly wrong. Over the next hour, you’ll try poultices, fire, prayer, and the mercy of strangers with iron tongs. None of it will

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01:32:30

The BRUTAL Life of a Cave Woman | History For Sleep

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/08/26

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianTonight, you're not fighting in a trench or trapped in a gilded palace. No — tonight, you are forgotten. You were born into the Paleolithic world under a cold, starless sky. No one wrote your name. No one carved your story into stone. But you lived. You bled. You gave birth by firelight. You buried your dead with moss. You survived in silence.This is the brutal, invisible life of a prehistoric woman — a life

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01:32:30

What Was It Like to Be a Kamikaze Pilot in WWII? |...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/08/25

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianTonight’s story doesn’t end in glory. It doesn’t end with medals, or cheers, or even certainty. It ends somewhere above the sea, in silence. In this immersive historical narrative, you are a young Japanese man in World War II, “volunteered” for the Kamikaze Special Attack Unit. You will not return. From the moment the letter arrives, you begin a quiet unraveling — not heroic, not spectacular, just ceremonial. You

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01:44:01

The HORRIFYING Life of a Victorian Invalid | History...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/08/24

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianYou’re not the heroine of a Victorian novel. You’re not even the tragic figure in a painting. You’re just a teenage girl who caught a cough that never quite went away — and now you’re being quietly buried beneath wool blankets, rose-scented water, and social expectations. In tonight’s slow descent, you’ll trade walks in the garden for lace-trimmed bedsores, embroidery hoops for glass medicine bottles, and visitors

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01:32:30

The HORRIFYING Life of a Maid in Marie Antoinette’s...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/08/23

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianYou were nobody. And yet you were there — powdered the Queen’s face, emptied her chamberpot, stood like a statue as Versailles crumbled around you.In tonight’s immersive historical story, you’ll step into the silk-lined prison of palace life at the height of the French monarchy — not as a noble, but as a forgotten maid. You’ll kneel on lice-ridden rugs, polish silver that no one notices, and witness the strange

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01:32:30

The TERRIFYING Fate of a Renaissance Smallpox Victim...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/08/22

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianTonight, we’re not following kings, warriors, or saints. We’re following a tailor’s apprentice in Renaissance Europe… as his skin blooms with red sores, his neighbors whisper of sin and punishment, and the local barber-surgeon arrives with hot cups and mustard plasters.There are no miracles here. Just fever. Isolation. And a slow, painful transformation that leaves the body disfigured — and the memory quietly

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01:36:40

How Did Medieval People Get High? | History For Sleep

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/08/21

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianTonight, you’re not chasing glory, or even survival. You’re just trying to make it through the Middle Ages without accidentally hallucinating yourself into sainthood.From moldy rye to poppy syrup, flying ointments to incense smoke, this journey through historical intoxication isn’t about rebellion—it’s about ritual. Poor harvest? Have some psychedelic bread. Sick child? Try opium tea. Feeling holy? That might be

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01:39:04

Why You’d REGRET Visiting a Roman Bathhouse | History...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/08/20

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianWelcome to ancient Rome, where cleanliness was a group activity, hygiene was a suggestion, and “refreshment” meant scalding your flesh off in communal steam. In this immersive second-person journey, you are not a senator, not a philosopher, not even particularly clean—you’re just an unlucky Roman citizen trying to survive a trip to the public baths.You’ll undress in full view of strangers. Scrape off oil and grime

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02:01:40

The HORRIFYING Life of a Nazi Soldier on Meth |...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/08/19

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianYou were told you'd be a hero. That the pills would help you march farther, shoot straighter, stay awake longer. That victory was a matter of stamina — and obedience. But what they didn’t say is that those white tablets were methamphetamine. And once they gave them to you, they never let you stop.In this quietly devastating descent, you are a young conscript in the German Wehrmacht during WWII — pushed into

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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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02:01:40

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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