Boring History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian
Hosted by The Drowsy Historian · Drowsy Historian
4.1from 500 ratings
- 611
- Episodes
- 411
- Transcribed
- 500
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2025
- First episode
About Boring History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian
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.
- Publisher
- Drowsy Historian
- Category
- history
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 22 May 2025
- Latest episode
- 8 Nov 2026
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411 of 611 episodes have a transcript.
8 Nov 2026TRANSCRIPT
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Fall Asleep as a Public Bath Attendant in Ancient Constantinople
Published 8 Nov 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Constantinople begins to emerge from darkness. You can hear more footsteps now. Somewhere nearby, a shopkeeper is lifting a wooden shutter. A donkey gives a tired bray. Someone calls to another person across the street. The city is gathering itself, piece by piece. Soon the first bathers will arrive. […]
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