Boring History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian
Hosted by The Drowsy Historian · Drowsy Historian
4.1from 478 ratings
- 565
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- 364
- Transcribed
- 478
- 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
- 23 Sept 2026
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364 of 565 episodes have a transcript.
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Fall Asleep as a Printer Working During the Protestant Reformation
Published 23 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] A handful of lead letters looks like something that should be swept into a corner Yet these letters will soon be covered with ink and pressed against paper. They will leave behind words. Those words will be dried, stacked, counted, bundled and carried away. Someone will read them, someone else will read them aloud. Another person may disagree with them strongly enough to write a reply. which will probably require another. Printer, another supply of paper, and another long morning among tiny pieces of lead. For now, though, none of that has happened. You simply stand beside the press as the morning light settles across the workshop. […]
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