History’s First Financial Bubble: Tulip Mania
Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianIn seventeenth-century Holland, beauty became a currency. This is the quiet, devastating story of Tulip Mania — how an...
14 Nov 20251h 23min
The TERRIFYING Fate of a Vestal Virgin Who Breaks Her Vow
Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianTonight, we walk slowly into the heart of ancient Rome — into marble halls, incense smoke, and whispered vows — to wit...
13 Nov 20251h 42min
The DARK History of the Asylum
Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianFrom the medieval almshouses where faith and fear mingled, to the towering Victorian institutions that promised compas...
12 Nov 20251h 53min
The HORRIFYING Life of a Cocaine Addict in 1970s Miami
Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianUnder the sweltering Miami sun of the late 1970s, you arrive chasing freedom, fortune, and a taste of the city’s elect...
11 Nov 20251h 40min
The HORRIFYING Fate of a Krokodil Addict
Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianTonight’s story drifts into one of the darkest corners of modern history — the rise of krokodil, the so-called “cheap ...
10 Nov 20251h 30min
The HORRIFYING Fate of a Russian Famine Survivor
Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianTonight, we descend into the famine-ravaged Russian countryside, where fertile black soil once promised life but deliv...
9 Nov 20251h 50min
The Quiet Horror of Medieval Medicine
Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianIn the candlelit world of the Middle Ages, medicine was as much ritual as science. You’ll step inside the healer’s cha...
8 Nov 20253h 4min
The HORRIFYING Experience of Childbirth in Ancient Rome
Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianChildbirth in ancient Rome was never a promise of life. For Roman women, pregnancy was not a moment of celebration but...
7 Nov 20251h 27min
