History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian

• The HORRIFYING Life of an Opium Addict in Victorian London

  Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianStep into the fog of Victorian London, where one man’s ordinary life as a clerk unravels into shadows and smoke. What begins as a curious visit to Limehouse soon spirals into a relentless haze of addiction. Through damp alleys, silent dens, and the roar of a city that thrives on empire while erasing its forgotten poor, this story follows the slow collapse of a life consumed by opium. Factories clatter, carriages rattle, broadsheets sneer, but within the haze time loses all meaning. This is not just a tale of smoke—it is a tale of erasure, hypocrisy, and the quiet devastation of those history chooses not to count.🛏️ Drowsy Historian’s Favorite Sleep ToolsLooking to upgrade your nighttime routine? These are a few things I personally use or recommend:• Sleep Earbuds for Enhanced Immersion → https://amzn.to/4pVFoJy• Blanket Soft Enough to Make the Plague Feel Tolerable → https://amzn.to/3GSOq8f• Weighted Blanket for Pretending You’re a Mummified Pharaoh → https://amzn.to/4kVJCgE• Sleep Mask Headphones For Total Historical Escape → https://amzn.to/4nWsNVn• Book Light for Reading About Plagues at 2AM → https://amzn.to/4eSg0iu• White Noise Machine for Blocking Out the 21st Century → https://amzn.to/3GJ9jTwThese are affiliate links. I may earn a small commission if you purchase through them—at no extra cost to you. Thanks for supporting the show while staying cozy.#history #victorian #opium #addiction #forgottenhistory #calmhistorian #asmrhistory #sleepstories

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• The HORRIFYING Reality of the Stanford Prison Experiment

  Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianWhat starts as $15 a day for easy money quickly descends into one of the most infamous psychological studies in history. In 1971, volunteers at Stanford University signed up for a simple experiment on “prison life.” Within days, the basement cells, the mirrored sunglasses, and the clang of bars turned role-play into cruelty, obedience, and collapse.This is the horrifying reality of the Stanford Prison Experiment—how humiliation, claustrophobia, and the simple act of obedience unraveled healthy young men in less than a week. Step inside the buzzing fluorescent lights, the stale air, and the suffocating authority, and see how “science” went wrong.🛏️ Drowsy Historian’s Favorite Sleep ToolsLooking to upgrade your nighttime routine? These are a few things I personally use or recommend:• Sleep Earbuds for Enhanced Immersion → https://amzn.to/4pVFoJy• Blanket Soft Enough to Make the Plague Feel Tolerable → https://amzn.to/3GSOq8f• Weighted Blanket for Pretending You’re a Mummified Pharaoh → https://amzn.to/4kVJCgE• Sleep Mask Headphones For Total Historical Escape → https://amzn.to/4nWsNVn• Book Light for Reading About Plagues at 2AM → https://amzn.to/4eSg0iu• White Noise Machine for Blocking Out the 21st Century → https://amzn.to/3GJ9jTwThese are affiliate links. I may earn a small commission if you purchase through them—at no extra cost to you. Thanks for supporting the show while staying cozy.#HistoryForSleep #StanfordPrisonExperiment #DarkHistory #Psychology #Obedience #SocialExperiments

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• The HORRIFYING Life of a Soldier in the Battle of the Bulge

  Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianThe Battle of the Bulge was meant to be the last gasp of the German army, a desperate strike through the frozen Ardennes in December 1944. But for the American soldiers caught in it, the battle became something else entirely: a descent into frost, hunger, and silence that would follow them long after the guns stopped firing.In this immersive story, we step into the boots of an ordinary soldier and witness the slow unraveling of hope in the snow. From the quiet promises of “home by Christmas,” to the sudden eruption of fire and steel, to the hollow victory earned among frozen corpses, this is the horrifying reality of one of the most brutal winters of World War II.This isn’t a tale of generals and maps. It’s the story of gaunt faces around a fire, of rifles carried more like crutches, of footsteps echoing in woods that had become a graveyard. Survival here was not triumph, it was endurance against frost, starvation, and fear.🛏️ Drowsy Historian’s Favorite Sleep ToolsLooking to upgrade your nighttime routine? These are a few things I personally use or recommend:• Sleep Earbuds for Enhanced Immersion → https://amzn.to/4pVFoJy• Blanket Soft Enough to Make the Plague Feel Tolerable → https://amzn.to/3GSOq8f• Weighted Blanket for Pretending You’re a Mummified Pharaoh → https://amzn.to/4kVJCgE• Sleep Mask Headphones For Total Historical Escape → https://amzn.to/4nWsNVn• Book Light for Reading About Plagues at 2AM → https://amzn.to/4eSg0iu• White Noise Machine for Blocking Out the 21st Century → https://amzn.to/3GJ9jTwThese are affiliate links. I may earn a small commission if you purchase through them—at no extra cost to you. Thanks for supporting the show while staying cozy.#BattleOfTheBulge #WWIIHistory #SleepHistory #DrowsyHistorian #HistoricalStorytelling #CalmHistory #ForgottenHistory #WW2

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• The ABSURD Lifestyles of Gilded Age Millionaires

  Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianStep into the absurd world of America’s Gilded Age, where fortunes built on railroads, oil, and steel were flaunted in the most spectacularly wasteful ways imaginable. From Newport “cottages” larger than Versailles to masquerade balls lit by thousands of gas flames, the wealthy turned every corner of life into a performance of extravagance. Pets wore diamond collars while immigrant families lived in overcrowded tenements a few blocks away. Banquet tables sagged under towers of oysters that rotted before anyone touched them, and scandals were whispered through society even as opera houses and libraries bore the names of robber barons. This was an age gilded, not golden — a thin sheet of brilliance laid over coal dust, hunger, and strikes broken by Pinkertons.🛏️ Drowsy Historian’s Favorite Sleep ToolsLooking to upgrade your nighttime routine? These are a few things I personally use or recommend:• Sleep Earbuds for Enhanced Immersion → https://amzn.to/4pVFoJy• Blanket Soft Enough to Make the Plague Feel Tolerable → https://amzn.to/3GSOq8f• Weighted Blanket for Pretending You’re a Mummified Pharaoh → https://amzn.to/4kVJCgE• Sleep Mask Headphones For Total Historical Escape → https://amzn.to/4nWsNVn• Book Light for Reading About Plagues at 2AM → https://amzn.to/4eSg0iu• White Noise Machine for Blocking Out the 21st Century → https://amzn.to/3GJ9jTwThese are affiliate links. I may earn a small commission if you purchase through them—at no extra cost to you. Thanks for supporting the show while staying cozy.#GildedAge #HistoryForSleep #DrowsyHistorian #VictorianEra #WealthInequality #AmericanHistory #CalmHistory

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• Why You’d REGRET Being a Mummy-Maker in Ancient Egypt

  Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianStep inside the suffocating world of an ancient Egyptian embalmer. This isn’t the golden glamour of pharaohs and tomb treasures—it’s the grim reality of scraping brains with bronze hooks, packing organs in jars, and wrapping corpses until faces vanish. While kings are promised eternity, the men who preserved them were condemned to anonymity, carrying resin smoke in their lungs and salt dust in their throats.In this slow, immersive descent, you’ll hear how embalming was less holiness than labor: the stench of decay, the endless monotony, and the bitter irony that those who built eternity for others were erased from it themselves.🛏️ Drowsy Historian’s Favorite Sleep ToolsLooking to upgrade your nighttime routine? These are a few things I personally use or recommend:• Sleep Earbuds for Enhanced Immersion → https://amzn.to/4pVFoJy• Blanket Soft Enough to Make the Plague Feel Tolerable → https://amzn.to/3GSOq8f• Weighted Blanket for Pretending You’re a Mummified Pharaoh → https://amzn.to/4kVJCgE• Sleep Mask Headphones For Total Historical Escape → https://amzn.to/4nWsNVn• Book Light for Reading About Plagues at 2AM → https://amzn.to/4eSg0iu• White Noise Machine for Blocking Out the 21st Century → https://amzn.to/3GJ9jTwThese are affiliate links. I may earn a small commission if you purchase through them—at no extra cost to you. Thanks for supporting the show while staying cozy.#History #AncientEgypt #Mummification #DrowsyHistorian #ForSleep #DarkHistory

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