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
Why You’d REGRET Being a SURGEON in Renaissance Europe
Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianTonight, you step into a narrow stone street of Renaissance Europe — not as a noble physician or learned scholar, but ...
3 Feb 1h 47min
What Was It Like to Be a Midwife in Medieval Scotland?
Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianIn medieval Scotland, birth rarely happened in silence — but it rarely happened with certainty either.Tonight, you ste...
2 Feb 1h 45min
What It Was REALLY Like to Be a Medieval Astrologer
Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianStep quietly into a medieval town just before dawn, where stone streets cool overnight and the stars still linger abov...
1 Feb 2h 22min
Fall Asleep As a 1910s Factory Worker Making Early Automobiles
Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianIn the early twentieth century, the automobile promised freedom, speed, and progress. But inside the factory, progress...
31 Jan 2h 12min
How People Survived Witchcraft Accusations in 1600s Scotland
Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianIn 1600s Scotland, surviving a witchcraft accusation had very little to do with magic — and everything to do with rest...
30 Jan 1h 59min
The BRUTAL Life of a Telegraph Repairman in 1880s Canada
Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianIn the frozen Canadian prairies of the 1880s, progress doesn’t arrive with fanfare. It arrives as a thin wire stretche...
29 Jan 2h 6min
