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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Fall Asleep as a Nurse in the Crimean War (1854)
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Fall Asleep as a Mail Coach Guard Protecting the King’s Mail (1700s England)
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Fall Asleep as a Stable Boy in Tudor England
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Fall Asleep as a Water Carrier in Ancient Athens
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Fall Asleep as a Clerk Recording Deaths During the 1918 Pandemic
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Fall Asleep as a Cave Dweller at the End of the Ice Age
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Fall Asleep in Siberia During the Tunguska Explosion (1908)
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Fall Asleep as a Phrenologist Mapping the Mind in 1840
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Fall Asleep as an Executioner's Assistant in Early Modern Europe
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Fall Asleep as a Medieval Farmer During a Failed Harvest
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Fall Asleep as an Elderly Villager in Ancient China
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Fall Asleep as a Retail Worker During the Rise of Organized Shoplifting Rings
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Fall Asleep as a Jesuit Missionary Questioning Your Faith in the New World
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Fall Asleep as a Medieval City Guard on Night Watch
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Fall Asleep as a Nomadic Herder on the Eurasian Steppe in 1138
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Fall Asleep as a Royal Navy Sailor at Sea in 1805
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Fall Asleep as a Medieval Monastery Scribe in 13th Century Europe
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Fall Asleep as a Medici Banker Watching the Bank Collapse (1480s Florence)
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Fall Asleep as a Roman Doctor Treating the Sick of Ancient Rome
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Fall Asleep as a Factory Foreman During the Great Depression
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Fall Asleep as a Medieval Midwife Accused of Heresy
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Fall Asleep as an Elder in Ancient Athens Watching the City Change
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Fall Asleep As a Medieval Pickpocket Avoiding the City Guard
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Fall Asleep as a Blacksmith Below Deck on an 1800s Warship
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Fall Asleep as a Printer Press Operator During the Protestant Reformation
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Fall Asleep as a Peasant in an Ancient Indus Valley City Built for the Heat
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Fall Asleep As a WWI Trench Soldier Preparing for the Charge
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Fall Asleep As a Royal Cook for Queen Elizabeth I (Tudor England)
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Why You’d REGRET Being a Grave Robber in 1828 London
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Fall Asleep as a Dockworker in Ancient Alexandria
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Fall Asleep As a 1950s Factory Worker Organizing a Union
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Fall Asleep as a Stable Boy in the Tudor Royal Court
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Fall Asleep As a Nun Entering a Monastery in the Early Middle Ages
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Fall Asleep As a Roman Farmer Surviving a Harsh Winter
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Fall Asleep As a Midwife in Medieval Scotland (Where Life and Death Arrive Witho...
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What Life Was Like for an Ordinary Civilian in Nazi Germany
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Fall Asleep As an Ottoman Coffeehouse Owner (When Coffee Was Illegal)
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Fall Asleep As a Soviet Prisoner Headed to the Gulag
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Fall Asleep as a Whisky Maker in the Scottish Highlands
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Fall Asleep As a Farmer Living Through the Potato Famine of 1845
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Fall Asleep As a Spy Waiting for Execution During the Mexican Revolution
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Fall Asleep as a Victorian Chimney Sweep Inspector
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Fall Asleep as a Telegraph Operator During the Mexican Revolution
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Fall Asleep As a Servant in the Ottoman Imperial Harem
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Fall Asleep While Living Through London’s Gin Craze
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Fall Asleep While Living Through the Spanish Conquest of Mexico
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Why You’d REGRET Becoming a Janissary in the Ottoman Empire
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Fall Alseep While Serving in the British Royal Navy During the Napoleonic Wars
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Fall Asleep While Living Through the Plague in Renaissance Florence
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What Was Medical School Like in the Middle Ages?
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