Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorian 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. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

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Why You’d REGRET Joining Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show 2025-08-14
Why Being a Gentleman in the 18th Century Was a Slow, Expensive Death 2025-08-14
Why You’d Regret Being a Renaissance Executioner 2025-08-13
Why You Wouldn't Survive as a Medieval Street Urchin 2025-08-13
Why You Wouldn’t Survive Crossing the Bering Strait in the Ice Age 2025-08-12
Why You Wouldn’t Survive as a WWI Tunnel Digger 2025-08-12
What It Was Like to Stay In a Victorian Workhouse 2025-08-11
What Was It Like to Attend the First Thanksgiving 2025-08-11
Why You’d Regret Being a Constable in Tudor England 2025-08-10
Why It Sucked to Be a Medieval Serf 2025-08-10
What Was It Like to Be a Female Pharaoh in Ancient Egypt? 2025-08-09
Why You'd REGRET Being a Soviet Sniper in WWII 2025-08-09
What Was It Like to Be the Last Samurai? 2025-08-08
The BRUTAL Life of a Servant in Colonial Singapore 2025-08-08
The BRUTAL Life of an Incan Llama Herder 2025-08-07
The HORRIFYING Life of a Medieval Gravedigger During the Black Death 2025-08-07
The BRUTAL Life of a Persian Soldier under Xerxes 2025-08-06
Why You Wouldn’t Survive as a WWII Truck Driver 2025-08-06
Why You Wouldn’t Survive as a Chinese Railroad Worker in the Wild West 2025-08-05
Why You’d Regret Being a Woman in Feudal Japan 2025-08-05
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