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437 - Fall Asleep as a Medieval Messenger Carrying Letters Between Monasteries (Medieval Ireland)

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437 - Fall Asleep as a Medieval Messenger Carrying Letters Between Monasteries (Medieval Ireland)

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History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian

Episodes

Fall Asleep as a Medieval Messenger Carrying Letters Between Monasteries (Medieval Ireland)

Fall Asleep as a Roman Camp Follower Traveling with a Army on Campaign

Fall Asleep as a Caregiver Escorting Orphan Train Children Across America

Fall Asleep as a Canal Boat Worker Hauling Cargo in Industrial England

Fall Asleep as a Servant Living in a Medici Palace in Renaissance Florence

Fall Asleep as a Medieval Bell Ringer Waking an Entire Town Before Dawn

Fall Asleep as a Water Carrier in Ancient Athens (While Philosophers Debate Reality)

Fall Asleep as a Ice Age Hunter Tracking a Reindeer Herd Across the Tundra

Fall Asleep as a Caregiver in a 20th-Century Tuberculosis Sanatorium

Fall Asleep as a Roman Soldier Guarding the Edge of the Empire

Fall Asleep as a Coffeehouse Owner in the Age of Enlightenment

Fall Asleep as a 20th Century Reporter Following a Crime No One Fully Understands

Fall Asleep as a Cave Painter at the End of the Ice Age Capturing the World in Stone

Fall Asleep as a Medieval Doctor Using Ancient (and Questionable) Medicine

Fall Asleep as an 1860s Railroad Worker Crossing the American West

Fall Asleep as a Grave Digger in Medieval London (Where the Dead Keep Coming)

Fall Asleep as a Medieval Clockmaker Discovering Time

Fall Asleep as a Baker in Ancient Rome (The Quiet Work That Fed a City)

Fall Asleep as a 1930s Detective Uncovering a Hidden Criminal Network

Fall Asleep as a Tea Merchant Traveling the World Through Trade

Fall Asleep as a Medieval Miller Keeping the Village Fed

Fall Asleep as an Ice Age Hunter Tracking Mammoths Across Frozen Plains

Fall Asleep as a Gang Member in 1920s New York (The Quiet Reality of Prohibition)

Fall Asleep as a Lighthouse Keeper on a Dangerous Coast (1700s)

Fall Asleep as a Nun Caring for the Sick During a Medieval Plague

Fall Asleep as a Builder Constructing a Roman Bathhouse

Fall Asleep as a Factory Worker Joining a Labor Union in the 1950s

Fall Asleep as a Sailor Delivering Coffee to Europe for the First Time

Fall Asleep as a Town Crier Delivering Bad News in Medieval England

Fall Asleep as a Farmer Living Through a Drought in Ancient Mesopotamia

Fall Asleep as a Detective Investigating an Unsolved Murder in 1920s America

Fall Asleep as a Blacksmith in Henry VIII’s Court

Fall Asleep as a Sheriff Collecting Taxes in Medieval England

Fall Asleep as a Hunter on the Eurasian Steppe During the Ice Age

Fall Asleep as a Nurse in the Crimean War (1854)

Fall Asleep as a Mail Coach Guard Protecting the King’s Mail (1700s England)

Fall Asleep as a Stable Boy in Tudor England

Fall Asleep as a Water Carrier in Ancient Athens

Fall Asleep as a Clerk Recording Deaths During the 1918 Pandemic

Fall Asleep as a Cave Dweller at the End of the Ice Age

Fall Asleep in Siberia During the Tunguska Explosion (1908)

Fall Asleep as a Phrenologist Mapping the Mind in 1840

Fall Asleep as an Executioner's Assistant in Early Modern Europe

Fall Asleep as a Medieval Farmer During a Failed Harvest

Fall Asleep as an Elderly Villager in Ancient China

Fall Asleep as a Retail Worker During the Rise of Organized Shoplifting Rings

Fall Asleep as a Jesuit Missionary Questioning Your Faith in the New World

Fall Asleep as a Medieval City Guard on Night Watch

Fall Asleep as a Nomadic Herder on the Eurasian Steppe in 1138

Fall Asleep as a Royal Navy Sailor at Sea in 1805