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 Being a Chernobyl Liquidator | History For Sleep
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You’re not a soldier. You’re not a scientist. You’re just a name on a list — and that list just sent you into the worst…
Why You Wouldn't Survive as a Tunnel Rat in Vietnam | History For Sleep
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Tonight, we’re crawling into the suffocating underworld of the Vietnam War — not as a general, not even as a soldier wi…
The HORRIFYING Life of a Medieval Peasant With Stone Man Disease | History For Sleep
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You are a medieval English peasant — poor, tired, and already halfway broken by life. And now your body has decided to …
Why It SUCKED to Be a Teen in Medieval England | History For Sleep
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Being a teenager has never been easy — but in medieval England, it was a waking nightmare. In this immersive, second-pe…
Why Life Was BRUTAL in Medieval Ireland | History For Sleep
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Welcome to the brutal reality of medieval Ireland.
In this immersive, darkly funny sleep-history video, we take you thro…
Why You Wouldn't Survive the Tower of London | History For Sleep
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Welcome to the Tower. You’re not here for a tour. You’re here to disappear.
In this immersive, second-person historical …
The BRUTAL Life of an Ottoman Prince | History For Sleep
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You were born a prince — but that’s where the good news ends.
In this slow-burning descent through silk-draped paranoia,…
The HORRIFYING Reality of Surgery Before Anesthesia | History For Sleep
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Before anesthesia, surgery wasn’t just dangerous — it was a waking nightmare. In this immersive historical journey, we …
The BRUTAL Life of a Tudor Lady-in-Waiting | History For Sleep
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Step into the shadowed halls of Tudor England, where elegance was armor and silence could save your life. In this immer…
Why It Was TERRIFYING to Be a Woman in Jack the Ripper’s London | History For Sleep
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Step into the gaslit, fog-choked streets of 1888 Whitechapel — where survival isn’t safety, and being a woman means nav…
Why You'd REGRET Being Marco Polo's Assistant | History For Sleep
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You thought it would be an adventure. A once-in-a-lifetime journey with history’s most famous explorer. Instead, you go…
The TERRIFYING Fate of a Burn Victim in 18th Century Paris | History For Sleep
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In 1700s Paris, fire wasn’t just a danger — it was a sentence. In this immersive historical journey, we follow the grim…
Why You Wouldn't Survive Building the Great Wall of China | History For Sleep
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Welcome to the Great Wall of China — not the one in the travel brochures, but the real one. The one built with blood, b…
The HORRIFYING Fate of a Prisoner in Unit 731 | History For Sleep
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⚠️ Content Warning: This video includes references to real historical atrocities, including torture, biological warfare…
Why You Wouldn't Survive Early Jamestown | History For Sleep
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The Glorious Lie: Why You Wouldn’t Survive Leaving England for Jamestown
They told you Virginia was a land of promise. O…
The TERRIFYING Fate of a Victorian Tuberculosis Victim | History For Sleep
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Tonight we’re not just coughing politely into a handkerchief — we’re diving headfirst into the gasping, sweating, slowl…
Why You Wouldn't Survive the Silk Road | History For Sleep
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Welcome to the Silk Road — not the romanticized highway of cultural exchange you learned about in school, but the gritt…
Why Medieval Sieges Were a Living Nightmare | History For Sleep
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Welcome to Drowsy Historian, where history is slow, grim, and weirdly relaxing. In this episode, we take you inside a m…
The BRUTAL Life of a Medieval Bastard | History For Sleep
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Being born a bastard in medieval Europe wasn’t just a social inconvenience — it was a lifelong sentence of exclusion, h…
Why Medieval Childbirth Was a Death Sentence | History For Sleep
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Step into the shadows of medieval Europe and experience one of history’s most dangerous and overlooked realities: child…