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History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian — 442 episodes

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Fall Asleep as a Funeral Priest Preparing the Dead in Ancient Egypt

2

Fall Asleep as a Lighthouse Assistant on a Remote Island in 1890s Scotland

3

Fall Alseep as a Traveling Relic Seller in the Late Middle Ages

4

Fall Asleep as a Roman Vineyard Worker During Harvest Season

5

You’re a Fisherman Drying Cod in a Viking Settlement

6

Fall Asleep as a Factory Timekeeper During the Great Depression

7

Fall Asleep as a Court Dwarf in a 16th Century Royal Palace

8

Fall Asleep as a Scribe in Ancient Babylon (Clay Tablets & Taxes)

9

Fall Asleep as a Flint Knapping Apprentice in Prehistoric Europe

10

Fall Asleep Baking Bread for the Gods in Ancient Egypt

11

Fall Asleep as an Ice Age Shellfish Gatherer on a Frozen Coast

12

Fall Asleep as a Telephone Switchboard Operator in 1920s Chicago

13

Fall Asleep as a Canal Lock Keeper in Industrial England 1794

14

Fall Asleep as a Noble Guest at a Baroque Palace in 17th Century Vienna

15

Fall Asleep as a Medieval Beekeeper Supplying Monasteries with Wax and Honey

16

Fall Asleep as a Salt Miner Working Beneath the Alps in the Bronze Age

17

Fall Asleep as a Lighthouse Keeper Isolated on a Stormy Coast in the Early 1900s

18

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

19

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

20

Fall Asleep as a Coffeehouse Owner in the Age of Enlightenment

21

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

22

Fall Asleep as a Medieval Clockmaker Discovering Time

23

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

24

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

25

Fall Asleep as a Tea Merchant Traveling the World Through Trade

26

Fall Asleep as a Medieval Miller Keeping the Village Fed

27

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

28

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

29

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

30

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

31

Fall Asleep as a Builder Constructing a Roman Bathhouse

32

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

33

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

34

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

35

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

36

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

37

Fall Asleep as a Blacksmith in Henry VIII’s Court

38

Fall Asleep as a Sheriff Collecting Taxes in Medieval England

39

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

40

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

41

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

42

Fall Asleep as a Stable Boy in Tudor England

43

Fall Asleep as a Water Carrier in Ancient Athens

44

Fall Asleep as a Clerk Recording Deaths During the 1918 Pandemic

45

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

46

Fall Asleep in Siberia During the Tunguska Explosion (1908)

47

Fall Asleep as a Phrenologist Mapping the Mind in 1840

48

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

49

Fall Asleep as a Medieval Farmer During a Failed Harvest

50

Fall Asleep as an Elderly Villager in Ancient China

51

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

52

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

53

Fall Asleep as a Medieval City Guard on Night Watch

54

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

55

Fall Asleep as a Royal Navy Sailor at Sea in 1805

56

Fall Asleep as a Medieval Monastery Scribe in 13th Century Europe

57

Fall Asleep as a Medici Banker Watching the Bank Collapse (1480s Florence)

58

Fall Asleep as a Roman Doctor Treating the Sick of Ancient Rome

59

Fall Asleep as a Factory Foreman During the Great Depression

60

Fall Asleep as a Medieval Midwife Accused of Heresy

61

Fall Asleep as an Elder in Ancient Athens Watching the City Change

62

Fall Asleep As a Medieval Pickpocket Avoiding the City Guard

63

Fall Asleep as a Blacksmith Below Deck on an 1800s Warship

64

Fall Asleep as a Printer Press Operator During the Protestant Reformation

65

Fall Asleep as a Peasant in an Ancient Indus Valley City Built for the Heat

66

Fall Asleep As a WWI Trench Soldier Preparing for the Charge

67

Fall Asleep As a Royal Cook for Queen Elizabeth I (Tudor England)

68

Why You’d REGRET Being a Grave Robber in 1828 London

69

Fall Asleep as a Dockworker in Ancient Alexandria

70

Fall Asleep As a 1950s Factory Worker Organizing a Union

71

Fall Asleep as a Stable Boy in the Tudor Royal Court

72

Fall Asleep As a Nun Entering a Monastery in the Early Middle Ages

73

Fall Asleep As a Roman Farmer Surviving a Harsh Winter

74

Fall Asleep As a Midwife in Medieval Scotland (Where Life and Death Arrive Without Warning)

75

What Life Was Like for an Ordinary Civilian in Nazi Germany

76

Fall Asleep As an Ottoman Coffeehouse Owner (When Coffee Was Illegal)

77

Fall Asleep As a Soviet Prisoner Headed to the Gulag

78

Fall Asleep as a Whisky Maker in the Scottish Highlands

79

Fall Asleep As a Farmer Living Through the Potato Famine of 1845

80

Fall Asleep As a Spy Waiting for Execution During the Mexican Revolution

81

Fall Asleep as a Victorian Chimney Sweep Inspector

82

Fall Asleep as a Telegraph Operator During the Mexican Revolution

83

Fall Asleep As a Servant in the Ottoman Imperial Harem

84

Fall Asleep While Living Through London’s Gin Craze

85

Fall Asleep While Living Through the Spanish Conquest of Mexico

86

Why You’d REGRET Becoming a Janissary in the Ottoman Empire

87

Fall Alseep While Serving in the British Royal Navy During the Napoleonic Wars

88

Fall Asleep While Living Through the Plague in Renaissance Florence

89

What Was Medical School Like in the Middle Ages?

90

You’re a 1920s Nurse Treating Victims of Early Radiation Exposure

91

Why You’d REGRET Surviving a Witch Trial in the Middle Ages

92

What It Was Like to Practice Medicine in the Middle Ages

93

Fall Asleep As a Celtic Farmer During Roman Conquest

94

Fall Asleep As a Factory Worker Escaping the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

95

What It Was Like to Be a Christian Boy Taken for the Ottoman Janissaries

96

Fall Asleep While Working the Docks in a 1903 British Port

97

Fall Asleep As a Peasant in Roman Britain

98

Fall Asleep as a City Guard in Ancient Sumer

99

Fall Asleep While Living Through the Spanish Inquisition

100

Fall Asleep While Running a Medieval Tavern

101

Fall Asleep As a Bolshevik During the Storming of the Winter Palace (1917)

102

Fall Asleep as an Ancient Egyptian Temple Priest Preparing the Dead for Eternity

103

Fall Asleep As a Persian Immortal at the Battle of Marathon

104

Fall Asleep Living in the World’s First Ghetto (Venice, 1516)

105

Fall Asleep As a Medieval Mason Building a Gothic Cathedral

106

Why You’d REGRET Being a WWII Minesweeper

107

Why You’d REGRET Being a WWI Pigeon Handler

108

What It Was Like to Be a Peasant in Tokugawa Japan

109

Why You Wouldn’t Survive the Great Stink of 1858

110

Why You’d REGRET Being a SURGEON in Renaissance Europe

111

What Was It Like to Be a Midwife in Medieval Scotland?

112

What It Was REALLY Like to Be a Medieval Astrologer

113

Fall Asleep As a 1910s Factory Worker Making Early Automobiles

114

How People Survived Witchcraft Accusations in 1600s Scotland

115

The BRUTAL Life of a Telegraph Repairman in 1880s Canada

116

Why You’d REGRET Being a French Musketeer

117

How Sumerians Built Entire Ziggurats by Hand in Ancient Mesopotamia

118

How Medieval Castle Cooks Fed an Entire Castle (Without Refrigeration)

119

What It Was Actually Like to Be a Cold War Test Pilot

120

What It Was Like to Be an Edwardian Gentleman in 1905

121

Why You’d REGRET Being a Victorian Dentist

122

Why You'd NEVER Survive as a Russian Peasant Under Catherine the Great

123

What It Was Like to Be a Homeless Child in Renaissance Naples

124

How the Mongols Survived BRUTAL Winters on the Steppes

125

What It Was REALLY Like to Be a TRENCH COOK in World War I

126

What It Was REALLY Like to Be a Factory Worker During the Great Depression

127

What It Was REALLY Like to Be a Gold Prospector in the California Gold Rush

128

Why You'd Regret Joining a Street Gang in Victorian London

129

How the Roads of Ancient Rome Were Actually Built

130

How Ships Were Built Entirely by Hand During the Age of Sail

131

The HORRIFYING Life of a Victorian Sewer Worker

132

Why You Wouldn’t Survive as a Sailor Aboard a 16th-Century Slave Ship

133

What It Was REALLY Like to Run a Medieval Inn (Where Stories Never Agree)

134

How 18th Century Fur Trappers Survived BRUTAL Winters

135

The Most Relaxing Facts About Ancient Rome to Fall Asleep To

136

Why You’d NEVER Survive the Silver Mines of Ancient Greece

137

What It Was REALLY Like to Be a Medieval Traveling Merchant

138

The HORRIFYING Life of a Rat Catcher in the Trenches of WWI

139

The HORRIFYING Life of a Victorian Match Girl with Phossy Jaw

140

How Thirty Years’ War Soldiers Endured BRUTAL Conditions

141

How Medieval Falconers Survived a Job That Hated Them

142

The HORRIFYING Fate of a Bronze Age Sailor Lost at Sea

143

How Medieval Carpenters Built Houses That Lasted Centuries

144

Why You Wouldn’t Survive the Great Famine of 1315

145

How Soviet Gulag Prisoners Survived BRUTAL Conditions

146

Why You’d REGRET Being a Cold War Spy

147

What It Was Like to Be an Alchemist in Renaissance Prague

148

Why Being a Glassblower in 1500s Venice Was a Dangerous Privilege

149

The HORRIFYING Life of a Factory Worker in Stalin’s USSR

150

Why You’d REGRET Being a Medieval Monk

151

Why You Would NEVER Survive Spartan Training

152

The HORRIFYING Night of the Firebombing of Tokyo

153

The BRUTAL Life of a Medieval Knight

154

The HORRIFYING Life of a 1600s Witch Hunter

155

The HORRIFYING Life of a Servant at Versailles

156

Why Victorian Inventors Were Stranger Than You Think

157

The HORRIFYING Life of a Sailor on Magellan’s Voyage

158

The Horrifyingly Boring Life of a 1950s Housewife

159

The HORRIFYING Life of a Cotton Mill Worker in Victorian England

160

The ABSURD Life of a Renaissance Court Musician

161

How Ancient Sailors Navigated Without Getting Lost (Most of the Time)

162

What Was It Like to Live in Ancient Mesopotamia? The World's First Civilization

163

The Lonely Life of a Royal Bastard in Renaissance England

164

The HORRIFYING Truth About Street Food in Medieval Cairo

165

The HORRIFYING Fate of a Man in the Tuskegee Syphilis Study

166

The HORRIFYING Life of a Meth Addict in 1940s Japan

167

The Most Relaxing Facts About Medieval Life to Fall Asleep To

168

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

169

Why WWI Trench Warfare Was WORSE Than You Think

170

What It Was Really Like to Be a Pirate on the High Seas

171

The DARK History of Child Labor in Victorian London

172

What Did Medieval Peasants ACTUALLY Do for Fun?

173

The ENTIRE History of Beds to Fall Asleep To

174

How Did the Maya Survive the Jungle’s Relentless Heat?

175

The HORRIFYING History of Madness in the Middle Ages

176

What It Was Like to Live in a 1930s Appalachian Holler

177

The Filthiest Eras in Human History

178

The BRUTAL Life of a Child Bride in Medieval India

179

The HORRIFYING Life of a Patient at Kentucky's Narcotic Farm

180

The ENTIRE History of Toilets (From Mudbrick to Modern Plumbing)

181

Who Were the Minoans? Europe's First Civilization

182

What It Was REALLY Like to Live in Mussolini’s Italy

183

The CREEPIEST Folk Tales in History

184

What It Was Like to Be a Train Hopping Hobo in 1930s America

185

The HORRIFYING Life of a Kratom Addict in British Malaya

186

The HORRIFYING Fate of the Franklin Expedition

187

The ENTIRE History of Marijuana Use

188

The HORRIFYING Life of an Alcoholic in Soviet Russia

189

The STRANGEST Pets in History

190

What Life Was Really Like in Medieval Spain

191

History’s First Financial Bubble: Tulip Mania

192

The TERRIFYING Fate of a Vestal Virgin Who Breaks Her Vow

193

The DARK History of the Asylum

194

The HORRIFYING Life of a Cocaine Addict in 1970s Miami

195

The HORRIFYING Fate of a Krokodil Addict

196

The HORRIFYING Fate of a Russian Famine Survivor

197

The Quiet Horror of Medieval Medicine

198

The HORRIFYING Experience of Childbirth in Ancient Rome

199

The STRANGE Things Victorians Did

200

The TERRIFYING Effects of Thalidomide (Birth Defect Scandal)

201

The 5 Mass Extinctions That Nearly Erased Life (Up to 90% Died)

202

The HORRIFYING Fate of a Hurricane Katrina Survivor

203

Why You Wouldn’t Survive the Great Blizzard of 1888

204

What Halloween Was REALLY Like in the Middle Ages

205

What Life Was REALLY Like on the American Frontier

206

Why You'd REGRET Shopping at a Medieval Market

207

The HORRIFYING Life of a WWII Combat Medic

208

The STRANGE History of the Potsdam Giants

209

How Did Medieval People Think Witchcraft Worked?

210

Why You’d REGRET Living in Kowloon Walled City

211

Why the Black Death Was WORSE Than You Think

212

The HORRIFYING Fate of a Prisoner in a Khmer Rouge Reeducation Camp

213

Why You'd REGRET Being a Medieval Leech Collector

214

The HORRIFYING Fate of a Sokushinbutsu Monk (Self-Mummification)

215

What It Was REALLY Like to Sail with Columbus in 1492

216

The HORRIFYING Life of an Opium Addict in Victorian London

217

The HORRIFYING Reality of the Stanford Prison Experiment

218

The Strange Way Victorians Tried to Talk to the Dead

219

The HORRIFYING Life of a Soldier in the Battle of the Bulge

220

The ABSURD Lifestyles of Gilded Age Millionaires

221

Why You’d REGRET Being a Mummy-Maker in Ancient Egypt

222

The HORRIFYING Fate of the USS Indianapolis

223

The ENTIRE History of England

224

The HORRIFYING Life of a Prostitute in Renaissance Amsterdam

225

The HORRIFYING Life of a Medieval Alcoholic

226

The HORRIFYING Life of a Cowboy with Tuberculosis

227

Why You Wouldn’t Last a Day as a Roman Plebeian

228

The ENTIRE Dark History of Opium

229

The HORRIFYING Life of a Depression Era Boxer

230

The STRANGE History of Halloween: From Ghosts to Candy Corn

231

The HORRIFYING Life of a WWII B-17 Tail Gunner

232

The ENTIRE History of Ancient Rome

233

Why You’d REGRET Living in a Medieval Castle

234

The HORRIFYING Life of a 1970s Quaalude Addict

235

The Strange, Brutal Myths of the Greek Gods

236

Why You’d REGRET Going to Woodstock 1969

237

What Daily Life Was REALLY Like in Ancient Egypt

238

The Horrifying Life of a Medieval Barber-Surgeon

239

The Dark Origins of the Werewolf Myth

240

The HORRIFYING Life of an Appalachian Moonshiner

241

Did Medieval Warriors Get PTSD?

242

The HORRIFYING Life of a Viking Berserker

243

The HORRIFYING Life of a 90s Grunge Rocker

244

How did Renaissance People Get High?

245

The HORRIFYING Life of a Coal Miner with Black Lung

246

The HORRIFYING Life of a Tiger Tank Commander on the Eastern Front

247

The HORRIFYING Life of a Medieval Squire

248

How Colonial Families Survived BRUTAL Winters

249

The HORRIFYING Life of a Heroin Addict After WWI

250

The Entire History of Ireland

251

The HORRIFYING Life of a Soviet Conscript at Stalingrad

252

How Victorians Got High: Opium Dens, Cocaine & More

253

Why You Wouldn’t Survive a Medieval Exorcism

254

Why You Wouldn’t Survive a WWI Gas Attack

255

Why Being a Civil War Soldier Was a Living Hell

256

The HORRIFYING Life of a Child Emperor in the Forbidden City

257

The BRUTAL Life of a Sumo Wrestler in Edo Japan

258

How Did Medieval People Flirt?

259

The 12 WORST Times to Be a Man in History

260

The HORRIFYING Life of a Polio Patient in an Iron Lung

261

Why You'd Regret Being a Wild West Outlaw

262

The HORRIFYING Life of a Laudanum Addict in Georgian London

263

The HORRIFYING Life of a Plague Doctor in Renaissance Prague

264

Why Being a Medieval Monster Hunter Was a Death Sentence

265

Why You’d Regret Competing in the Ancient Greek Olympics

266

Why You’d Regret Being a Flamethrower Operator in WWII | History For Sleep

267

Why You’d Regret Getting Pregnant in Victorian England | History For Sleep

268

What Sex was Really Like in Feudal Japan | History For Sleep

269

Why You’d Regret Becoming a Courtesan in Renaissance Venice | History For Sleep

270

How Did Medieval People Deal With Toothaches? | History For Sleep

271

The BRUTAL Life of a Cave Woman

272

What Was It Like to Be a Kamikaze Pilot in WWII?

273

The HORRIFYING Life of a Victorian Invalid

274

The HORRIFYING Life of a Maid in Marie Antoinette’s Court

275

The TERRIFYING Fate of a Renaissance Smallpox Victim

276

How Did Medieval People Get High?

277

Why You’d REGRET Visiting a Roman Bathhouse

278

The HORRIFYING Life of a Nazi Soldier on Meth

279

The TERRIFYING Fate of an Opium Addict in 1897 Seattle

280

Why You’d Regret Being a Redcoat in the American Revolution

281

The BRUTAL Life of a Male Concubine in Imperial China

282

The MISERABLE Life of a Medieval Court Jester

283

Why You Wouldn’t Survive Caesar’s Conquest of Gaul

284

The HORRIFYING Fate of the Fishermen Caught in a U.S. Nuclear Test

285

Why You’d REGRET Joining Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show

286

Why Being a Gentleman in the 18th Century Was a Slow, Expensive Death

287

Why You’d Regret Being a Renaissance Executioner

288

Why You Wouldn't Survive as a Medieval Street Urchin

289

Why You Wouldn’t Survive Crossing the Bering Strait in the Ice Age

290

Why You Wouldn’t Survive as a WWI Tunnel Digger

291

What It Was Like to Stay In a Victorian Workhouse

292

What Was It Like to Attend the First Thanksgiving

293

Why You’d Regret Being a Constable in Tudor England

294

Why It Sucked to Be a Medieval Serf

295

What Was It Like to Be a Female Pharaoh in Ancient Egypt?

296

Why You'd REGRET Being a Soviet Sniper in WWII

297

What Was It Like to Be the Last Samurai?

298

The BRUTAL Life of a Servant in Colonial Singapore

299

The BRUTAL Life of an Incan Llama Herder

300

The HORRIFYING Life of a Medieval Gravedigger During the Black Death

301

The BRUTAL Life of a Persian Soldier under Xerxes

302

Why You Wouldn’t Survive as a WWII Truck Driver

303

Why You Wouldn’t Survive as a Chinese Railroad Worker in the Wild West

304

Why You’d Regret Being a Woman in Feudal Japan

305

Why You’d REGRET Attending a Tudor Banquet

306

Why You’d REGRET Being a Scottish Mercenary in the Hundred Years’ War

307

What It Was Like to Be Homeless in Ancient Greece

308

The TERRIFYING Fate of a 1960s Soviet Cosmonaut

309

The TERRIFYING Fate of a Victorian Cholera Victim

310

What It Was Like to Be a Child Laborer in Industrial Britain

311

The HORRIFYING Life of Charles II of Spain (The Last Habsburg Disaster)

312

Why You’d Regret Being a Woman Warrior in Feudal Japan

313

The HORRIFYING Fate of a Roman Legionnaire in the Teutoburg Forest

314

The HORRIFYING Fate of a WWII Comfort Woman

315

Why You Wouldn’t Survive a Night with the Bloody Benders

316

Why You Wouldn't Survive Bedlam Royal Hospital

317

Why You’d REGRET Being Henry VIII’s Physician

318

Why You’d Regret Being a Noble During Vlad the Impaler's Reign

319

The TERRIFYING Fate of a Roman Peasant During the Fall of Rome

320

Why You Wouldn’t Survive the Flight 571 Disaster

321

Why You Wouldn’t Survive the Great Locust Swarm of 1875

322

Why You'd REGRET Being a Loyalist in the American Revolution

323

The Horrifying Fate of the Man in the Iron Mask

324

Why You'd REGRET Trying Street Food in 14th-Century Delhi

325

Why You Wouldn't Survive Building the Great Pyramid of Giza

326

Why You Wouldn’t Survive Inside a WWII Tank

327

The BRUTAL Life of a Cowboy on a Cattle Drive

328

The HORRIFYING Fate of a Female Pirate

329

Why You Wouldn't Survive as a Christian Missionary in Feudal Japan

330

The TERRIFYING Life of a Medieval Irish Bard

331

The BRUTAL Life of a Vestal Virgin in Ancient Rome

332

The HORRIFYING Fate of a CIA Mind Control Test Subject (MK-Ultra)

333

Why Being a Victorian Chimney Sweep Was a Death Sentence

334

Why You Wouldn’t Survive a British Opium Factory in Colonial India

335

The HORRIFYING Truth About the Marian Persecutions

336

The HORRIFYING Fate of a Woman Captured by Genghis Khan

337

The BRUTAL Life of a Roman Slave

338

The HORRIFYING Fate of a Survivor in Hiroshima

339

The TERRIFYING Fate of a Spanish Flu Victim (1918)

340

You’re a Comanche Warrior When the World Still Fears You

341

The HORRIFYING Fate of a Tasmanian Islander During British Colonization

342

Why You Wouldn’t Survive a Plague Outbreak at the Tudor Court

343

Why You Wouldn’t Survive the Winter of 536 AD (Worst Year in History)

344

You Wouldn’t Survive the Bronze Age Collapse

345

Why You Wouldn’t Survive the D-Day Landing

346

You’re Trapped on the Roof During the LA Riots (And No One’s Coming to Help)

347

The HORRIFYING Fate of a Congolese Rubber Worker Under King Leopold

348

The BRUTAL Life of a Continental Soldier

349

Why You Wouldn’t Survive the Spanish Conquest of the Aztec Empire

350

The Bloody Life of a Maid in Anne Boleyn’s Household

351

The HORRIFYING Truth About Medieval Gynecology

352

The BRUTAL Fate of a Beast Fighter in the Colosseum

353

The HORRIFYING Fate of WWI's Canary Girls

354

The HORRIFYING Fate of a Lobotomy Patient in the 1940s

355

The Delicate Brutality of Chinese Foot Binding

356

The DISGUSTING Life of a Rat-Catcher in Georgian London

357

The BRUTAL Life of a Geisha in Edo Japan

358

Why You Wouldn't Survive a Medieval Torture Chamber

359

The Horrifying Fate of a Child Sacrificed to Baal

360

What It Was Like to be Trapped in Jonestown

361

Why You Wouldn't Survive Building the Panama Canal

362

Why Being a Harlot in 1890s New Orleans Was a Death Sentence

363

Why Being a Castrato Was a Beautiful, Horrifying Prison

364

The Miserable Life of a Renaissance Noble Woman

365

Why You Wouldn't Survive a Tsunami in 15th-Century Japan

366

Why Being a Spartan Helot Was a Nightmare

367

Why You Wouldn't Survive Aboard a WWII U-Boat

368

What It Was Like to Spend a Day in a 19th-Century Parisian Café

369

The UNTHINKABLE Reality of a Slave Ship Crossing the Atlantic

370

You're Accused of Sorcery in Ottoman Istanbul

371

Why You Wouldn't Survive a Camel Caravan Across the Sahara

372

Why You Wouldn't Survive Hannibal's March Over the Alps

373

What It Was Like to Work in the Library of Alexandria

374

The TERRIFYING Reality of Locked in Syndrome

375

The HORRIFYING Fate of the Radium Girls

376

Why You'd REGRET Being a Roman Sewer Worker

377

Why Being a Medieval Midwife Was a Death Sentence

378

The BRUTAL Life of a Pharaoh's Servant

379

Why You Wouldn't Survive the Dust Bowl

380

You're in Pompeii When the Volcano Erupts

381

The TERRIFYING Fate of an Opium Addict in Colonial Shanghai

382

The BRUTAL Life of a Napoleonic Soldier

383

Why You Wouldn't Survive the Industrial Revolution

384

Why It Was BRUTAL to Be a Woman in Tudor England

385

Why You Wouldn't Survive a Soviet Gulag

386

Why You Wouldn't Survive the Titanic

387

Why Tudor Food Was Disgusting and Deadly

388

Why You Wouldn't Survive the Children’s Crusade

389

Why You Wouldn't Survive Being a Chernobyl Liquidator

390

Why You Wouldn't Survive as a Tunnel Rat in Vietnam

391

The HORRIFYING Life of a Medieval Peasant With Stone Man Disease

392

Why It SUCKED to Be a Teen in Medieval England

393

Why Life Was BRUTAL in Medieval Ireland

394

Why You Wouldn't Survive the Tower of London

395

The BRUTAL Life of an Ottoman Prince

396

The HORRIFYING Reality of Surgery Before Anesthesia | History For Sleep

397

The BRUTAL Life of a Tudor Lady-in-Waiting

398

Why It Was TERRIFYING to Be a Woman in Jack the Ripper’s London

399

Why You'd REGRET Being Marco Polo's Assistant

400

The TERRIFYING Fate of a Burn Victim in 18th Century Paris

401

Why You Wouldn't Survive Building the Great Wall of China

402

The HORRIFYING Fate of a Prisoner in Unit 731

403

Why You Wouldn't Survive Early Jamestown

404

The TERRIFYING Fate of a Victorian Tuberculosis Victim

405

Why You Wouldn't Survive the Silk Road

406

Why Medieval Sieges Were a Living Nightmare

407

The BRUTAL Life of a Medieval Bastard

408

Why Medieval Childbirth Was a Death Sentence

409

The BRUTAL Life of a Harem Slave in the Mughal Court

410

The HORRIFYING Fate of a Heretic in the Spanish Inquisition

411

The BRUTAL Life of a Eunuch in Imperial China

412

The TERRIFYING Fate of an Accused Witch in 1600s Europe

413

Why You Wouldn't Survive the Trenches of WWI

414

The BRUTAL Life of a Roman Gladiator

415

The TERRIFYING Fate of a Renaissance Syphilis Victim

416

Why the Crusades Were a Total Disaster for Everyone

417

The BRUTAL Life of a Concubine in Imperial China

418

The BIZARRE Food of the Aztecs

419

What Medieval Feasts Were REALLY Like

420

Why You Wouldn’t Survive the Great Molasses Flood (Yes, That Really Happened)

421

Why You Wouldn't Survive as Bonnie and Clyde

422

The TERRIFYING Fate of a Medieval Rabies Victim

423

Why Food SUCKED in Ancient Rome

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The BRUTAL Life of a Viking Slave

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Why You Wouldn't Survive a Medieval Plague Ship

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The BIZARRE Laughter Epidemic That Took Over a Country

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The BRUTAL Reality Native Americans Faced in the 1800s

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The BRUTAL Plague that Made You Dance Until You Died

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Why You Wouldn't Survive an Australian Penal Colony

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Why You Wouldn't "Survive" the Cadaver Synod

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Why You'd Regret Joining the Donner Party

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Why You Wouldn’t Survive as Henry VIII’s Wife (Most Didn’t)

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Why You Wouldn’t Survive the Stone Age

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Why You Wouldn't Survive the Salem Witch Trials

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Why You Wouldn’t Survive a Victorian Asylum

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Why You'd Regret Becoming a Viking Raider

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Why You Wouldn’t Survive the Black Death

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Why You Wouldn't Survive the Oregon Trail

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The BRUTAL Life of a Medieval Leper

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Why Medieval Justice Would've DESTROYED You

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Why You Wouldn't Survive as a Pirate

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Why it Sucked to Be a Roman Soldier and more