Fall Asleep as an Ancient Egyptian Temple Priest Preparing the Dead for Eternity
Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianStep quietly into Ancient Egypt, where stone temples breathe incense and time moves with the steady rhythm of ritual.T...
11 Feb 2h 23min
Fall Asleep As a Persian Immortal at the Battle of Marathon
Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianIn tonight’s story, you step into the sandals of a Persian Immortal — one of the empire’s elite soldiers — marching to...
10 Feb 2h
Fall Asleep Living in the World’s First Ghetto (Venice, 1516)
Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianIn 1516, Venice created the world’s first ghetto.Behind newly locked gates, Jewish residents were confined to a narrow...
9 Feb 2h 29min
Fall Asleep As a Medieval Mason Building a Gothic Cathedral
Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianTonight, you are a medieval stone mason, waking before dawn to the sound of bells and hammers echoing through a half-f...
8 Feb 1h 43min
Why You’d REGRET Being a WWII Minesweeper
Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianTonight, you step far from the front lines of World War II and onto a small, fragile minesweeper—one of the quietest a...
7 Feb 1h 39min
Why You’d REGRET Being a WWI Pigeon Handler
Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianDuring the First World War, not every life behind the lines carried a rifle.Some carried grain, ink, and small metal t...
6 Feb 2h 1min
What It Was Like to Be a Peasant in Tokugawa Japan
Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianYou wake before sunrise in Tokugawa-era Japan, tied to land you do not own and labor that will never fully belong to y...
5 Feb 1h 32min
Why You Wouldn’t Survive the Great Stink of 1858
Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianIn the summer of 1858, London became almost uninhabitable.The River Thames — swollen with raw sewage, industrial waste...
4 Feb 1h 40min
