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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You’re a 1920s Nurse Treating Victims of Early Radiation Exposure
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Why You’d REGRET Surviving a Witch Trial in the Middle Ages
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What It Was Like to Practice Medicine in the Middle Ages
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Fall Asleep As a Celtic Farmer During Roman Conquest
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Fall Asleep As a Factory Worker Escaping the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
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What It Was Like to Be a Christian Boy Taken for the Ottoman Janissaries
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Fall Asleep While Working the Docks in a 1903 British Port
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Fall Asleep As a Peasant in Roman Britain
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Fall Asleep as a City Guard in Ancient Sumer
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Fall Asleep While Living Through the Spanish Inquisition
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Fall Asleep While Running a Medieval Tavern
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Fall Asleep As a Bolshevik During the Storming of the Winter Palace (1917)
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Fall Asleep as an Ancient Egyptian Temple Priest Preparing the Dead for Eternity
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Fall Asleep As a Persian Immortal at the Battle of Marathon
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Fall Asleep Living in the World’s First Ghetto (Venice, 1516)
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Fall Asleep As a Medieval Mason Building a Gothic Cathedral
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Why You’d REGRET Being a WWII Minesweeper
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Why You’d REGRET Being a WWI Pigeon Handler
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What It Was Like to Be a Peasant in Tokugawa Japan
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Why You Wouldn’t Survive the Great Stink of 1858
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Why You’d REGRET Being a SURGEON in Renaissance Europe
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What Was It Like to Be a Midwife in Medieval Scotland?
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What It Was REALLY Like to Be a Medieval Astrologer
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Fall Asleep As a 1910s Factory Worker Making Early Automobiles
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How People Survived Witchcraft Accusations in 1600s Scotland
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The BRUTAL Life of a Telegraph Repairman in 1880s Canada
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Why You’d REGRET Being a French Musketeer
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How Sumerians Built Entire Ziggurats by Hand in Ancient Mesopotamia
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How Medieval Castle Cooks Fed an Entire Castle (Without Refrigeration)
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What It Was Actually Like to Be a Cold War Test Pilot
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What It Was Like to Be an Edwardian Gentleman in 1905
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Why You’d REGRET Being a Victorian Dentist
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Why You'd NEVER Survive as a Russian Peasant Under Catherine the Great
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What It Was Like to Be a Homeless Child in Renaissance Naples
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How the Mongols Survived BRUTAL Winters on the Steppes
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What It Was REALLY Like to Be a TRENCH COOK in World War I
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What It Was REALLY Like to Be a Factory Worker During the Great Depression
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What It Was REALLY Like to Be a Gold Prospector in the California Gold Rush
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Why You'd Regret Joining a Street Gang in Victorian London
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How the Roads of Ancient Rome Were Actually Built
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How Ships Were Built Entirely by Hand During the Age of Sail
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The HORRIFYING Life of a Victorian Sewer Worker
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Why You Wouldn’t Survive as a Sailor Aboard a 16th-Century Slave Ship
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What It Was REALLY Like to Run a Medieval Inn (Where Stories Never Agree)
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How 18th Century Fur Trappers Survived BRUTAL Winters
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The Most Relaxing Facts About Ancient Rome to Fall Asleep To
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Why You’d NEVER Survive the Silver Mines of Ancient Greece
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What It Was REALLY Like to Be a Medieval Traveling Merchant
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The HORRIFYING Life of a Rat Catcher in the Trenches of WWI
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The HORRIFYING Life of a Victorian Match Girl with Phossy Jaw
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