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 the Spanish Conquest of the Aztec Empire | History For Sleep
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You’re not a warrior. Not a noble. Not a name anyone will remember. You’re an ordinary person in the greatest city on e…
The Bloody Life of a Maid in Anne Boleyn’s Household | History For Sleep
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History rarely remembers the ones who cleaned up after queens.
In Tudor England, being a maid in Anne Boleyn’s household…
The HORRIFYING Truth About Medieval Gynecology | History For Sleep
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Step into the cold, stone chambers of medieval medicine — where a woman’s body was misunderstood, mistreated, and mytho…
The BRUTAL Fate of a Beast Fighter in the Colosseum | History For Sleep
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Tonight, you’re not a gladiator. You’re something worse: a venator — a beast fighter condemned to die for the crowd’s a…
The HORRIFYING Fate of WWI's Canary Girls | History For Sleep
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In World War I, they weren’t on the front lines — but they were still in the blast zone. The “Canary Girls,” young wome…
The HORRIFYING Fate of a Lobotomy Patient in the 1940s | History For Sleep
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Tonight’s story isn’t about war, royalty, or rebellion — it’s about what happened when silence was mistaken for healing…
The Delicate Brutality of Chinese Foot Binding | History For Sleep
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Tonight’s story is not about queens or conquests. It’s about the quiet agony wrapped in silk.
You are not a soldier. Not…
The DISGUSTING Life of a Rat-Catcher in Georgian London | History For Sleep
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Tonight, you’re not a noble, a soldier, or even a proper corpse. You’re a rat-catcher — damp, itchy, underpaid, and inc…
The BRUTAL Life of a Geisha in Edo Japan | History For Sleep
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Tonight, you are not a guest in the teahouse — you are the one who serves, smiles, and disappears.
In this immersive, sl…
Why You Wouldn't Survive a Medieval Torture Chamber | History For Sleep
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Tonight, you're not an observer. You're the accused. Dragged from your home in the dark, locked in a dungeon that forge…
The Horrifying Fate of a Child Sacrificed to Baal | History For Sleep
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Tonight, you're not a visitor to the past. You're part of it — a child born into the dust and fire of an ancient world …
What It Was Like to be Trapped in Jonestown | History For Sleep
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What does it feel like to give everything for a better world—only to discover the world you built won’t let you leave?
I…
Why You Wouldn't Survive Building the Panama Canal | History For Sleep
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You’re not a hero. You’re not even a builder. You’re a laborer buried in mud, forgotten by history, and paid in tokens …
Why Being a Harlot in 1890s New Orleans Was a Death Sentence | History For Sleep
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Tonight, you’re not a famous courtesan or a tragic heroine. You’re a forgotten woman in a crib in 1890s Storyville — ti…
Why Being a Castrato Was a Beautiful, Horrifying Prison | History For Sleep
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Tonight, you're not a warrior, a queen, or even someone history remembered. You're a castrato — a child chosen, altered…
The Miserable Life of a Renaissance Noble Woman | History For Sleep
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Tonight’s story isn’t about queens, rebels, or women who rewrote history. It’s about someone far more common — and far …
Why You Wouldn't Survive a Tsunami in 15th-Century Japan | History For Sleep
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In 15th-century Japan, you are not a warrior, a noble, or even someone history will remember. You are a fisherman — a q…
Why Being a Spartan Helot Was a Nightmare | History For Sleep
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Tonight, you are not a Spartan. You’re a Helot — a state-owned slave at the bottom of one of the most brutal societies …
Why You Wouldn't Survive Aboard a WWII U-Boat | History For Sleep
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Tonight, we descend into the silent, rusted depths of the North Atlantic — not as a hero, not as a commander, but as a …
What It Was Like to Spend a Day in a 19th-Century Parisian Café | History For Sleep
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Step inside a forgotten Paris — not the one in postcards, but the one that smelled of coffee, candlewax, and the faint …