History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian

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History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian

by Drowsy Historian

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History 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.
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109 episodes

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1

Fall Asleep As a Medieval Pickpocket Avoiding the City Guard

1:46:51 Mar 23, 2026

2

Fall Asleep as a Blacksmith Below Deck on an 1800s Warship

1:55:44 Mar 22, 2026

3

Fall Asleep as a Printer Press Operator During the Protestant Reformation

1:45:29 Mar 21, 2026

4

Fall Asleep as a Peasant in an Ancient Indus Valley City Built for the Heat

1:54:41 Mar 20, 2026

5

Fall Asleep As a WWI Trench Soldier Preparing for the Charge

2:25:44 Mar 19, 2026

6

Fall Asleep As a Royal Cook for Queen Elizabeth I (Tudor England)

3:00:26 Mar 18, 2026

7

Why You’d REGRET Being a Grave Robber in 1828 London

3:13:14 Mar 17, 2026

8

Fall Asleep as a Dockworker in Ancient Alexandria

3:08:41 Mar 16, 2026

9

Fall Asleep As a 1950s Factory Worker Organizing a Union

3:24:37 Mar 15, 2026

10

Fall Asleep as a Stable Boy in the Tudor Royal Court

2:24:35 Mar 14, 2026

11

Fall Asleep As a Nun Entering a Monastery in the Early Middle Ages

3:05:38 Mar 13, 2026

12

Fall Asleep As a Roman Farmer Surviving a Harsh Winter

1:44:45 Mar 12, 2026

13

Fall Asleep As a Midwife in Medieval Scotland (Where Life and Death Arrive Without Warning)

2:08:20 Mar 11, 2026

14

What Life Was Like for an Ordinary Civilian in Nazi Germany

2:03:36 Mar 10, 2026

15

Fall Asleep As an Ottoman Coffeehouse Owner (When Coffee Was Illegal)

2:31:10 Mar 9, 2026

16

Fall Asleep As a Soviet Prisoner Headed to the Gulag

2:14:17 Mar 8, 2026

17

Fall Asleep as a Whisky Maker in the Scottish Highlands

2:09:05 Mar 7, 2026

18

Fall Asleep As a Farmer Living Through the Potato Famine of 1845

2:09:45 Mar 6, 2026

19

Fall Asleep As a Spy Waiting for Execution During the Mexican Revolution

2:04:42 Mar 5, 2026

20

Fall Asleep as a Victorian Chimney Sweep Inspector

2:28:50 Mar 4, 2026

21

Fall Asleep as a Telegraph Operator During the Mexican Revolution

2:19:22 Mar 3, 2026

22

Fall Asleep As a Servant in the Ottoman Imperial Harem

1:58:04 Mar 2, 2026

23

Fall Asleep While Living Through London’s Gin Craze

2:11:06 Mar 1, 2026

24

Fall Asleep While Living Through the Spanish Conquest of Mexico

2:00:52 Feb 28, 2026

25

Why You’d REGRET Becoming a Janissary in the Ottoman Empire

1:54:27 Feb 27, 2026

26

Fall Alseep While Serving in the British Royal Navy During the Napoleonic Wars

2:16:33 Feb 26, 2026

27

Fall Asleep While Living Through the Plague in Renaissance Florence

1:56:02 Feb 25, 2026

28

What Was Medical School Like in the Middle Ages?

2:14:35 Feb 24, 2026

29

You’re a 1920s Nurse Treating Victims of Early Radiation Exposure

2:06:10 Feb 23, 2026

30

Why You’d REGRET Surviving a Witch Trial in the Middle Ages

2:02:52 Feb 22, 2026

31

What It Was Like to Practice Medicine in the Middle Ages

2:19:49 Feb 21, 2026

32

Fall Asleep As a Celtic Farmer During Roman Conquest

2:11:13 Feb 20, 2026

33

Fall Asleep As a Factory Worker Escaping the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

2:33:08 Feb 19, 2026

34

What It Was Like to Be a Christian Boy Taken for the Ottoman Janissaries

2:07:59 Feb 18, 2026

35

Fall Asleep While Working the Docks in a 1903 British Port

2:02:32 Feb 17, 2026

36

Fall Asleep As a Peasant in Roman Britain

1:58:01 Feb 16, 2026

37

Fall Asleep as a City Guard in Ancient Sumer

1:58:41 Feb 15, 2026

38

Fall Asleep While Living Through the Spanish Inquisition

2:29:39 Feb 14, 2026

39

Fall Asleep While Running a Medieval Tavern

2:29:57 Feb 13, 2026

40

Fall Asleep As a Bolshevik During the Storming of the Winter Palace (1917)

2:25:54 Feb 12, 2026

41

Fall Asleep as an Ancient Egyptian Temple Priest Preparing the Dead for Eternity

2:23:01 Feb 11, 2026

42

Fall Asleep As a Persian Immortal at the Battle of Marathon

2:00:08 Feb 10, 2026

43

Fall Asleep Living in the World’s First Ghetto (Venice, 1516)

2:29:47 Feb 9, 2026

44

Fall Asleep As a Medieval Mason Building a Gothic Cathedral

1:43:24 Feb 8, 2026

45

Why You’d REGRET Being a WWII Minesweeper

1:39:18 Feb 7, 2026

46

Why You’d REGRET Being a WWI Pigeon Handler

2:01:26 Feb 6, 2026

47

What It Was Like to Be a Peasant in Tokugawa Japan

1:32:58 Feb 5, 2026

48

Why You Wouldn’t Survive the Great Stink of 1858

1:40:12 Feb 4, 2026

49

Why You’d REGRET Being a SURGEON in Renaissance Europe

1:47:29 Feb 3, 2026

50

What Was It Like to Be a Midwife in Medieval Scotland?

1:45:22 Feb 2, 2026

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