130 Episodes

  1. Why Being a Victorian Chimney Sweep Was a Death Sentence | History For Sleep

    Published: 7/21/2025
  2. Why You Wouldn’t Survive a British Opium Factory in Colonial India | History For Sleep

    Published: 7/21/2025
  3. The HORRIFYING Truth About the Marian Persecutions | History For Sleep

    Published: 7/20/2025
  4. The HORRIFYING Fate of a Woman Captured by Genghis Khan | History For Sleep

    Published: 7/20/2025
  5. The BRUTAL Life of a Roman Slave | History For Sleep

    Published: 7/19/2025
  6. The HORRIFYING Fate of a Survivor in Hiroshima | History For Sleep

    Published: 7/19/2025
  7. The TERRIFYING Fate of a Spanish Flu Victim (1918) | History For Sleep

    Published: 7/18/2025
  8. You’re a Comanche Warrior When the World Still Fears You | History For Sleep

    Published: 7/18/2025
  9. The HORRIFYING Fate of a Tasmanian Islander During British Colonization | History For Sleep

    Published: 7/17/2025
  10. Why You Wouldn’t Survive a Plague Outbreak at the Tudor Court | History For Sleep

    Published: 7/17/2025
  11. Why You Wouldn’t Survive the Winter of 536 AD (Worst Year in History) | History For Sleep

    Published: 7/16/2025
  12. You Wouldn’t Survive the Bronze Age Collapse | History For Sleep

    Published: 7/16/2025
  13. Why You Wouldn’t Survive the D-Day Landing | History For Sleep

    Published: 7/15/2025
  14. You’re Trapped on the Roof During the LA Riots (And No One’s Coming to Help) | History For Sleep

    Published: 7/15/2025
  15. The HORRIFYING Fate of a Congolese Rubber Worker Under King Leopold | History For Sleep

    Published: 7/14/2025
  16. The BRUTAL Life of a Continental Soldier | History For Sleep

    Published: 7/14/2025
  17. Why You Wouldn’t Survive the Spanish Conquest of the Aztec Empire | History For Sleep

    Published: 7/13/2025
  18. The Bloody Life of a Maid in Anne Boleyn’s Household | History For Sleep

    Published: 7/13/2025
  19. The HORRIFYING Truth About Medieval Gynecology | History For Sleep

    Published: 7/12/2025
  20. The BRUTAL Fate of a Beast Fighter in the Colosseum | History For Sleep

    Published: 7/12/2025

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