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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How Thirty Years’ War Soldiers Endured BRUTAL Conditions
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How Medieval Falconers Survived a Job That Hated Them
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The HORRIFYING Fate of a Bronze Age Sailor Lost at Sea
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How Medieval Carpenters Built Houses That Lasted Centuries
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Why You Wouldn’t Survive the Great Famine of 1315
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How Soviet Gulag Prisoners Survived BRUTAL Conditions
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Why You’d REGRET Being a Cold War Spy
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What It Was Like to Be an Alchemist in Renaissance Prague
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Why Being a Glassblower in 1500s Venice Was a Dangerous Privilege
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The HORRIFYING Life of a Factory Worker in Stalin’s USSR
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Why You’d REGRET Being a Medieval Monk
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Why You Would NEVER Survive Spartan Training
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The HORRIFYING Night of the Firebombing of Tokyo
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The BRUTAL Life of a Medieval Knight
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The HORRIFYING Life of a 1600s Witch Hunter
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The HORRIFYING Life of a Servant at Versailles
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Why Victorian Inventors Were Stranger Than You Think
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The HORRIFYING Life of a Sailor on Magellan’s Voyage
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The Horrifyingly Boring Life of a 1950s Housewife
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The HORRIFYING Life of a Cotton Mill Worker in Victorian England
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The ABSURD Life of a Renaissance Court Musician
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How Ancient Sailors Navigated Without Getting Lost (Most of the Time)
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What Was It Like to Live in Ancient Mesopotamia? The World's First Civilization
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The Lonely Life of a Royal Bastard in Renaissance England
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The HORRIFYING Truth About Street Food in Medieval Cairo
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The HORRIFYING Fate of a Man in the Tuskegee Syphilis Study
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The HORRIFYING Life of a Meth Addict in 1940s Japan
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The Most Relaxing Facts About Medieval Life to Fall Asleep To
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The HORRIFYING Fate of a Yellow Fever Victim in Colonial New Orleans
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Why WWI Trench Warfare Was WORSE Than You Think
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What It Was Really Like to Be a Pirate on the High Seas
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The DARK History of Child Labor in Victorian London
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What Did Medieval Peasants ACTUALLY Do for Fun?
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The ENTIRE History of Beds to Fall Asleep To
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How Did the Maya Survive the Jungle’s Relentless Heat?
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The HORRIFYING History of Madness in the Middle Ages
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What It Was Like to Live in a 1930s Appalachian Holler
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The Filthiest Eras in Human History
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The BRUTAL Life of a Child Bride in Medieval India
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The HORRIFYING Life of a Patient at Kentucky's Narcotic Farm
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The ENTIRE History of Toilets (From Mudbrick to Modern Plumbing)
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Who Were the Minoans? Europe's First Civilization
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What It Was REALLY Like to Live in Mussolini’s Italy
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The CREEPIEST Folk Tales in History
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What It Was Like to Be a Train Hopping Hobo in 1930s America
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The HORRIFYING Life of a Kratom Addict in British Malaya
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The HORRIFYING Fate of the Franklin Expedition
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The ENTIRE History of Marijuana Use
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The HORRIFYING Life of an Alcoholic in Soviet Russia
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The STRANGEST Pets in History
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