History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian

• The HORRIFYING Truth About Street Food in Medieval Cairo

  Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianTonight, we travel to late-medieval Cairo — a city of spice and smoke, where the Nile breathes life and decay in the same breath. You’ll wander through its narrow streets before dawn, follow the scent of baking bread to the markets, and listen to the water sellers’ songs as the day unfolds. Every meal smells divine… but hides a quiet danger.In this slow, immersive story, you’ll taste the beauty and risk of a world that fed millions — and sickened just as many.Lie back, close your eyes, and drift through Cairo’s labyrinth of warmth, hunger, and survival.🛏️ 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/47ccNqV• 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.#DrowsyHistorian #CalmHistory #MedievalCairo #HistoricalSleepStory #SleepPodcast #RelaxingHistory #HistoryForSleep #MiddleAges #HistoricalStorytelling #CairoHistory #TheNile #AncientEgypt #SleepStory

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• The HORRIFYING Fate of a Man in the Tuskegee Syphilis Study

  Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianTonight’s story takes us to Macon County, Alabama, in the 1930s. You are promised free medical care, meals, and the dignity of being treated by real doctors. But what begins with trust slowly becomes something else entirely. For forty years, men like you are studied rather than healed, their suffering quietly recorded in ledgers while cures are withheld in silence.This is not a tale of spectacle, but of endurance. It is the story of what it meant to believe in authority, to swallow the pills and carry the sacks of food, to trust in white coats that never offered truth. It is the story of a community marked by absences, funerals, and unspoken grief. Above all, it is the story of how silence itself can be the deepest betrayal.🛏️ 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 #sleep #Tuskegee #study #calmhistory #drowsyhistorian #institutionalhorror #forgottenhistory #sleepstories #darkhistory

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• The HORRIFYING Life of a Meth Addict in 1940s Japan

  Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianTokyo, 1949. The war is over, but survival still demands obedience. In a city rebuilding from ashes, stimulant pills called Philopon—marketed as “medicine for stamina”—quietly fuel Japan’s recovery. You are one of the millions working long hours under flickering lights, where exhaustion is a crime and silence is policy. This is the story of the worker who never stopped. The one who kept the line moving long after the body gave out.🛏️ 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/47ccNqV• 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.#TheDrowsyHistorian #HistoricalSleepStory #PostwarJapan #Philopon #JapaneseHistory #AddictionHistory #IndustrialJapan #Tokyo1940s #SleepStory #CalmHistory #WWIIJapan #JapaneseFactory #WorkCulture

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• The Most Relaxing Facts About Medieval Life to Fall Asleep To

  Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianStep quietly into the world of the Middle Ages — a place lit by candlelight and ruled by rhythm. From the first toll of the church bell to the final flicker of the hearth, this journey traces one hundred quiet details of daily life: how people worked, prayed, loved, and endured. You’ll walk through smoke-filled cottages, crowded marketplaces, and hushed monasteries where books were copied by hand. It’s a portrait of a world both harsh and beautiful — ordinary lives made extraordinary by their persistence.Perfect for sleep, study, or reflection, 100 Relaxing Facts About Medieval Life blends calm narration, soft soundscapes, and historical realism to bring the past gently to life.🛏️ 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/47ccNqV• 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.#MedievalLife #DrowsyHistorian #RelaxingHistory #SleepStory #MedievalEurope #HistoryForSleep #HistoricalASMR #CalmHistory

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• The HORRIFYING Fate of a Yellow Fever Victim in Colonial New Orleans

  Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianColonial New Orleans, 1769 — a city of heat, ambition, and denial. When yellow fever returns to the French Quarter, no one wants to admit it. Doctors prescribe bloodletting and rum, priests bless the air, and the wealthy flee upriver while the poor are told to pray. Through the eyes of one ordinary resident, witness a city trying to appear civilized as it quietly rots beneath the sugar and smoke.🛏️ 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/47ccNqV• 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.#YellowFever #DrowsyHistorian #ColonialNewOrleans #HistoricalStorytelling #HistoryForSleep #CalmHistory #BoringHistory #HistoricalNarration #SleepStory #ASMRHistory #MedicalHistory #DarkHistory #EpidemicHistory #HistoricalFiction

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