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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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All Episodes

01:30:44

The HORRIFYING Life of a Laudanum Addict in Georgian...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/09/04

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianIn Georgian London, pain is private, propriety is public, and relief comes in a brown glass bottle.Tonight, you are the respectable wife of a solicitor — twenty-seven, recently bereaved, and handed a tincture to help you sleep. Just a few drops, they say. A temporary solution. But laudanum is patient. It waits quietly as you drift. As your appetite fades. As your reputation dims. As you sell what can’t be replaced

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02:00:05

The HORRIFYING Life of a Plague Doctor in Renaissance...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/09/03

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianStep into the mask and mind of a forgotten plague doctor in Renaissance Prague. In this immersive, second-person journey, you’ll live the slow unraveling of duty, doubt, and death as one man tries — and fails — to hold the line against a city crumbling under the Black Death. No heroics. No salvation. Just vinegar-soaked leather, the weight of a ledger, and the quiet horror of being useful only until you’re not.Told

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01:21:43

Why Being a Medieval Monster Hunter Was a Death Sentence

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/09/02

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianSo you’ve been mistaken for a monster hunter. Unlucky.Welcome to medieval Europe — a place where superstition bleeds into justice, rot masquerades as folklore, and anything that looks vaguely human but slightly off must be killed before it spreads its sin. In this slow, immersive descent, you’re a limping vagabond dragged into the role of reluctant exorcist, amateur tracker, and disposable scapegoat. You’ll fight

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02:00:55

Why You’d Regret Competing in the Ancient Greek Olympics

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/09/01

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianTonight, we’re heading back to ancient Olympia — land of laurel wreaths, oil-slicked ambition, and deeply questionable decision-making. You are not an athlete. But you think you could be. What follows is a journey of dust, dishonor, goat-related overconfidence, and one deeply unfortunate encounter with a sacrificial cake.This is not a story of Olympic glory. It’s a cautionary tale of what happens when civic pride,

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01:39:58

Why You’d Regret Being a Flamethrower Operator in...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/08/31

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianTonight we descend into one of the most quietly horrifying roles of the Second World War: the flamethrower operator. Assigned not for courage or skill, but for quiet steadiness, you are handed a pressurized tank of burning fuel and told to clear bunkers, tunnels, and caves. No one trains you properly. No one asks how it feels. You are not celebrated — only used.This is not a story of heroism. It’s a slow erosion of

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01:28:51

Why You’d Regret Getting Pregnant in Victorian...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/08/30

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianIn Victorian England, pregnancy outside of marriage wasn’t a scandal. It was a sentence.This immersive episode places you in the worn shoes of a young working-class woman whose quiet mistake becomes the end of her former life. From the first wave of nausea behind a scullery door to the final signature on a silence contract, we follow a path shaped not by sin, but by structure.There are no villains here — only

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02:22:00

What Sex was Really Like in Feudal Japan | History...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/08/29

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianTonight, we explore the silent histories written not in ink, but in gestures, expectations, and silences — the intimate, often unseen realities of sex, duty, and power in Feudal Japan. This episode unfolds not as scandal or romance, but as structure: a world where every touch, every vow, and every gaze was shaped by law, custom, and fear of disgrace. From the wife of a weary merchant to the unseen labor of a

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01:37:54

Why You’d Regret Becoming a Courtesan in Renaissance...

History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian ·

2025/08/28

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianTonight, we slip behind silk curtains and into the curated illusion of luxury in Renaissance Venice — but not as a noble, nor even a guest. You are a courtesan. Accomplished, admired, and utterly disposable. From powdered poise to private ruin, you endure the slow erosion of worth in a world that sells desire and punishes those who embody it. This is not a story of scandal or salvation. This is a life lived in

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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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