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History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian

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. Whether you're hearing about plagues, peasant life, or papal trials, it's all narrated at a soothing pace with a dry wit designed to lull you into unconsciousness. 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.Drowsy Historian World
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  • The HORRIFYING Fate of the Radium Girls | History For Sleep
    Jun 30 2025

    Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorian


    You’re a teenage girl in 1917. You’ve landed a coveted job painting glowing numbers onto watch dials — patriotic work, scientific work, the kind of job they say is good for you. But what they don’t say is what happens next. Your bones begin to ache. Your teeth fall out. And no one listens. Not until it’s too late.

    This is the story of the Radium Girls — told in quiet detail and dark truth. It’s not a tale of triumph. It’s a slow unraveling of trust, health, and humanity. From factory floors to silent courtrooms, this immersive second-person narrative walks you through the beauty and horror of one of the 20th century’s most haunting labor tragedies.


    #RadiumGirls #HistoricalNarrative #DrowsyHistorian #SleepVideo #IndustrialHistory #TrueHistory #SecondPersonNarrative #QuietHorror #RadiationPoisoning #WomenInHistory #LaborRights #ASMRHistory

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    2 hrs and 2 mins
  • Why You'd REGRET Being a Roman Sewer Worker | History For Sleep
    Jun 30 2025

    Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorian


    Beneath the marble streets of ancient Rome lies a world no one wants to remember — but someone had to live it.

    In this immersive, second-person historical journey, you are not a senator, soldier, or citizen of renown. You are a Roman sewer worker — nameless, thankless, forgotten. You crawl through the Cloaca Maxima, Rome’s grandest sewer, surrounded by filth, rot, and the slow erosion of your body and soul. There is no glory here. Only endurance.

    Told in a calm, slow voice with dark humor and brutal honesty, this 2-hour sleep video is not meant to lull you with fantasy — but to walk you gently into the truth of the past. Through disease, labor, decay, and death, you’ll learn what it meant to survive where history turns its face away.


    #HistoryForSleep #DrowsyHistorian #DarkHistory #RomanSewers #CloacaMaxima #SleepVideo #HistoricalStorytelling #SecondPersonNarrative #BrutalHistory #ForgottenLives #AncientRome #HistoricalImmersion

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    2 hrs and 2 mins
  • Why Being a Medieval Midwife Was a Death Sentence | History For Sleep
    Jun 29 2025

    Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorian


    Step into the silent, bloodstained corners of medieval life — not as a noble, not as a knight, but as a village midwife. In this darkly immersive, second-person sleep story, you’ll experience the brutal truth of a role few survived and fewer were ever thanked for. From blood-soaked straw to whispered accusations of witchcraft, you walk the thin line between reverence and blame — holding lives in your hands while the Church watches, the villagers whisper, and death waits at every doorstep.

    Told in a calm, haunting tone meant to lull you to sleep while leaving the candles of history flickering in your mind, this story isn’t about heroes. It’s about the forgotten women who showed up — and paid the price.

    If you enjoy softly spoken history, quietly devastating detail, and the sharp contrast between survival and silence, this episode is for you.


    #DrowsyHistorian #HistoricalSleepStory #MedievalMidwife #DarkHistory #SleepNarration #ASMRHistory #HistoryForSleep #WomenInHistory #MedievalLife #HistoricalFiction #WitchTrials #SleepStory #BarberSurgeon #HistoryUnromanticized

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    2 hrs and 2 mins
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Listening to his calm deep voice was very relaxing. The stories are interesting enough to keep my mind from wondering off about everything I need to do tomrrow, but not so interesting that I had to stay awake to see what happened next. Fantastic bedtime listening.

Just what I needed to sleep

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Nice combination of good writing and great narration. The accent is a nice. These stories are great to fall asleep to.

Great stories and performance

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