History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian
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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- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 118 minutes
- Episodes
- 194
- Years Active
- 2025
Why You Wouldn't Survive an Australian Penal Colony | History For Sleep
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Life in a Penal Colony: The Brutal Truth Behind Australia’s Convict PastStep into the forgotten world of Australia’s ea…
Why You Wouldn't "Survive" the Cadaver Synod | History For Sleep
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What happens when a pope puts a corpse on trial? You get one of the most absurd chapters in Church history: the Cadaver…
Why You'd Regret Joining the Donner Party | History For Sleep
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You join the Donner Party in 1846, chasing the American dream. What you find is starvation, snow, desperation, and one …
Why You Wouldn’t Survive as Henry VIII’s Wife (Most Didn’t) | History For Sleep
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Step into the gilded nightmare of Tudor court life, where royal marriage meant danger, not devotion. In this immersive,…
Why You Wouldn’t Survive the Stone Age | History For Sleep
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Think you could survive the Stone Age? You wouldn’t. No food, no clothes, no words — just cold mornings, hungry wolves,…
Why You Wouldn't Survive the Salem Witch Trials | History For Sleep
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In 1692, Salem lost its mind. You just lost everything.Step into the mud-soaked streets of colonial Massachusetts, wher…
Why You Wouldn’t Survive a Victorian Asylum | History For Sleep
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Take a soothing stroll through the corridors of a Victorian-era mental asylum — where the diagnosis is vague, the thera…
Why You'd Regret Becoming a Viking Raider | History For Sleep
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Ever wondered what it was really like to be a Viking raider? Not the heroic, slow-motion version with soaring music and…
Why You Wouldn’t Survive the Black Death | History For Sleep
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In this Boring History For Sleep journey, you’ll experience what it was really like to catch the Black Death in 1348 — …
Why You Wouldn't Survive the Oregon Trail | History For Sleep
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Settle in for a calm, cozy descent into one of the most infamous road trips in American history. Tonight, we’re followi…
The BRUTAL Life of a Medieval Leper | History For Sleep
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Tonight, we travel back to a time when getting sick didn’t just ruin your day — it erased your entire life. Welcome to …
Why Medieval Justice Would've DESTROYED You | History For Sleep
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In this bedtime-friendly yet horrifyingly accurate deep dive, we explore the brutal, bizarre, and often absurd world of…
Why You Wouldn't Survive as a Pirate | History For Sleep
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Settle in and drift off as we take you on a slow, sarcastic, and deeply uncomfortable voyage into the grimy reality of …
Why it Sucked to Be a Roman Soldier and more | History For Sleep
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Forget the glory of the Roman legions. Tonight, we dive deep into the grim, exhausting, and lice-infested reality of wh…