History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian
Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianHistory 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.As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.
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Episodes (553)
Fall Asleep as a Noblewoman Spending the Season at a Venetian Carnival
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Fall Asleep as a Medieval Shepherd Driving Sheep Across the Scottish Highlands
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Fall Asleep as a Courier Carrying Imperial Orders Across Ancient Persia
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Fall Asleep as a Seal Hunter Living Along the North Atlantic Coast During the Ic...
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Fall Asleep as an Early 1900s Deep-Sea Diver
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Fall Asleep as a Wealthy Roman Spending the Summer at a Seaside Villa
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Fall Asleep as a Civilian Living Through the Partition of India in 1947
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Fall Asleep as a Fur Trader Wintering at a Remote Hudson’s Bay Company Post
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Fall Asleep as a Medieval Gong Farmer Cleaning the Castle Privies
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Fall Asleep as a Copper Miner Working in the Bronze Age Mediterranean
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Fall Asleep as a Bangkok Laborer During Thailand’s Yaba Crisis in the 1990s
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Fall Asleep as a Factory Worker Surrounded by Dangerous Chemicals in 19th Centur...
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Fall Asleep as a Sailor Facing Keelhauling in the Age of Sail
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Fall Asleep as a Medieval Charcoal Burner Living Alone in the Forest
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Fall Asleep as a Roman Animal Keeper Beneath the Colosseum
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Fall Asleep as a Prehistoric Fisher Crossing Arctic Waters in a Skin Boat
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Fall Asleep as a Field Medic Treating the Wounded During the Russian Civil War
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Fall Asleep as a Sewer Flusher Working Beneath Victorian London
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Fall Asleep as a Wealthy Sugar Merchant Living Lavishly in 17th-Century Amsterda...
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Fall Asleep as a Medieval Leech Collector Wading Through Swamps for Medicine
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Fall Asleep as an Embalmer Preparing a Mummy in Ancient Egypt
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Fall Asleep as an Indigenous Farmer Watching Europeans Arrive in 16th Century No...
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Fall Asleep as a World War I Aviator Flying Over the Western Front
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Fall Asleep as a Zookeeper Caring for Exotic Animals in Victorian London
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Fall Asleep as a Woman Living Through the Salem Witch Trials (1692)
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Fall Asleep as a Medieval Alewife Brewing Beer for an Entire Village
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Fall Asleep as a Servant Preparing a Roman Senator’s Lavish Dinner
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Fall Asleep as a Reindeer Hunter Surviving a Winter in Prehistoric Siberia
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Fall Asleep as an Airship Crewman Aboard the Hindenburg
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Fall Asleep as a Railway Porter Working Through a Gilded Age Winter
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Fall Asleep as a Sailor Being Punished Aboard an 18th Century Royal Navy Warship
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Fall Asleep as a Medieval Rat Catcher in a Crowded English Town
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Fall Asleep as an Ancient Roman Sewer Cleaner Beneath the Streets of the Empire
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Fall Asleep as an Indigenous Kayak Builder on the Arctic Coast 1,000 Years Ago
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Fall Asleep as a Lighthouse Keeper During a Deadly Winter Storm
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Fall Asleep as a Neolithic Stone Mason Building Britain's First Monuments
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Fall Asleep as a 1940s Night Nurse Caring for Polio Patients
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Fall Asleep as an 18th Century Prison Clerk
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Fall Asleep as a Pilgrim Staying at Medieval Hospitals Along the Road
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Fall Asleep as a Roman Baker During a Citywide Grain Shortage
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Fall Asleep Working in a Chicago Morgue During the Roaring Twenties
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Fall Asleep as a Railway Worker During the Great Blizzard of 1909
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Fall Asleep as a Court Musician Entertaining the Nobility at Versailles
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Fall Asleep as a Medieval Barber-Surgeon Traveling from Village to Village
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Fall Asleep as the Grave Keeper of a Medieval Monastery
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Fall Asleep as a Caravan Trader Crossing Ancient Amazigh Morocco
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Fall Asleep as a Hospital Volunteer During the 1918 Influenza Pandemic
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Fall Asleep as a Victorian Match Factory Inspector
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Fall Asleep as a Wealthy Gentleman Spending the Season at Georgian Era Bath (181...
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Fall Asleep as a Medieval Bell Ringer During the Black Death
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