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)
What Life Was Really Like in Medieval Spain
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History’s First Financial Bubble: Tulip Mania
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The TERRIFYING Fate of a Vestal Virgin Who Breaks Her Vow
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The DARK History of the Asylum
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The HORRIFYING Life of a Cocaine Addict in 1970s Miami
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The HORRIFYING Fate of a Krokodil Addict
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The HORRIFYING Fate of a Russian Famine Survivor
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The Quiet Horror of Medieval Medicine
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The HORRIFYING Experience of Childbirth in Ancient Rome
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The STRANGE Things Victorians Did
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The TERRIFYING Effects of Thalidomide (Birth Defect Scandal)
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The 5 Mass Extinctions That Nearly Erased Life (Up to 90% Died)
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The HORRIFYING Fate of a Hurricane Katrina Survivor
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Why You Wouldn’t Survive the Great Blizzard of 1888
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What Halloween Was REALLY Like in the Middle Ages
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What Life Was REALLY Like on the American Frontier
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Why You'd REGRET Shopping at a Medieval Market
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The HORRIFYING Life of a WWII Combat Medic
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The STRANGE History of the Potsdam Giants
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How Did Medieval People Think Witchcraft Worked?
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Why You’d REGRET Living in Kowloon Walled City
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Why the Black Death Was WORSE Than You Think
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The HORRIFYING Fate of a Prisoner in a Khmer Rouge Reeducation Camp
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Why You'd REGRET Being a Medieval Leech Collector
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The HORRIFYING Fate of a Sokushinbutsu Monk (Self-Mummification)
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What It Was REALLY Like to Sail with Columbus in 1492
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The HORRIFYING Life of an Opium Addict in Victorian London
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The HORRIFYING Reality of the Stanford Prison Experiment
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The Strange Way Victorians Tried to Talk to the Dead
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The HORRIFYING Life of a Soldier in the Battle of the Bulge
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The ABSURD Lifestyles of Gilded Age Millionaires
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Why You’d REGRET Being a Mummy-Maker in Ancient Egypt
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The HORRIFYING Fate of the USS Indianapolis
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The ENTIRE History of England
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The HORRIFYING Life of a Prostitute in Renaissance Amsterdam
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The HORRIFYING Life of a Medieval Alcoholic
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The HORRIFYING Life of a Cowboy with Tuberculosis
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Why You Wouldn’t Last a Day as a Roman Plebeian
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The ENTIRE Dark History of Opium
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The HORRIFYING Life of a Depression Era Boxer
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The STRANGE History of Halloween: From Ghosts to Candy Corn
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The HORRIFYING Life of a WWII B-17 Tail Gunner
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The ENTIRE History of Ancient Rome
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Why You’d REGRET Living in a Medieval Castle
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The HORRIFYING Life of a 1970s Quaalude Addict
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The Strange, Brutal Myths of the Greek Gods
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Why You’d REGRET Going to Woodstock 1969
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What Daily Life Was REALLY Like in Ancient Egypt
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The Horrifying Life of a Medieval Barber-Surgeon
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The Dark Origins of the Werewolf Myth
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