History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian

• Why You Wouldn't Survive Bedlam Royal Hospital | History For Sleep

  Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianStep into the cold corridors of Bedlam Royal Hospital, where silence is not peace—and compliance is not safety. In this immersive, second-person journey through the 18th-century asylum, you are not mad. But that doesn’t matter here. From the moment the gate slams shut behind you, your voice, your name, and your identity begin to fade. What follows is a quiet unraveling, wrapped in orderlies' routines and doctors’ polite indifference, where sanity is a performance and records speak louder than truth.This is not a horror story. This is history.#BedlamHospital #HistoricalSleepStory #DrowsyHistorian #MentalHealthHistory #18thCenturyEngland #AsylumHistory #SleepNarrative #CalmStorytelling #HistoricalNarrative

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• Why You’d REGRET Being Henry VIII’s Physician | History For Sleep

  Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianYou were the king’s physician — and nothing more than a shadow with steady hands. In the dark corridors of Henry VIII’s court, survival had nothing to do with medicine, and everything to do with keeping your head down while the leg rotted. The wound festered. The politics shifted. The crown watched.This is the story of what it meant to tend to a dying king and a dying empire — one quiet dressing at a time. You didn’t cure him. You didn’t survive him. And you were never meant to.#HenryVIII #TudorHistory #HistoricalStorytelling #DrowsyHistorian #HistoryForSleep #DarkHistory #MedicalHistory #TudorCourt #ASMRHistory #ImmersiveHistory #RoyalPhysician #CalmNarration #HistoryPodcast

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• Why You’d Regret Being a Noble During Vlad the Impaler's Reign | History For Sleep

  Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianStep into the dim halls and bloodstained courtyards of 15th-century Wallachia, where being a noble wasn’t a privilege — it was a warning sign. In this slow, immersive descent through paranoia, performance, and political cruelty, you experience firsthand what it meant to dine in Vlad the Impaler’s court… and how quickly a feast turned into a funeral.This is not a tale of rebellion. This is not a story of villains and heroes. It’s a story about visibility. And what happens when power needs an audience — and an example.If you enjoy dark, quiet, immersive histories told like bedtime stories for people who can’t sleep, you’re in the right place.#HistoryForSleep #VladTheImpaler #DrowsyHistorian #HistoricalHorror #FallOfEmpires #SleepStory #Wallachia #TrueHistory #MedievalEurope #ASMRHistory

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• The TERRIFYING Fate of a Roman Peasant During the Fall of Rome | History For Sleep

  Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianIn the dying days of the Roman Empire, glory was just a rumor—and survival was the only triumph. This is not the story of emperors or generals, but of a forgotten peasant watching his world crumble, piece by piece. War, famine, fire, silence. He doesn’t witness the fall of Rome with grandeur. He endures it with dirt under his nails and smoke in his lungs. If you're still listening by the end, thank you—for bearing witness to the kind of endurance history rarely honors.#FallOfRome #RomanEmpire #HistoryForSleep #DarkHistory #BoringHistory #DrowsyHistorian #HistoricalSleepStory #AncientHistory #CollapseOfCivilizations #PeasantLife

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• Why You Wouldn’t Survive the Flight 571 Disaster | History For Sleep

  Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianIn 1972, a plane carrying a Uruguayan rugby team crashed into the Andes mountains. What followed was not a tale of triumph, but of endurance—cold, slow, and horrifying. This is not a story of heroes. It’s a story of what survival really costs when the world forgets you exist. You’ll live the disaster moment by moment: the crash, the silence, the hunger, and the unthinkable decisions that followed. This is the Flight 571 disaster, told from the inside—slow, immersive, and unflinching.#DisasterHistory #Flight571 #Survival #AndesCrash #CannibalismHistory #DrowsyHistorian #SlowHistory #SleepStory #ImmersiveHistory

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