About this podcast
Soothing History for Sleep explores the strange, intimate, uncomfortable, and often surprising realities of everyday life in the past. From ancient sex and marriage to medieval medicine, bizarre hygiene, dangerous beauty, forgotten drugs, disease, survival, work, food, and private customs, each episode reveals what life was really like for ordinary people throughout history. Calm, carefully researched narration turns even history’s strangest subjects into relaxing stories designed for sleep.…
47 episodes · Health & Fitness
Soothing History for Sleep
About this podcast
Soothing History for Sleep explores the strange, intimate, uncomfortable, and often surprising realities of everyday life in the past. From ancient sex and marriage to medieval medicine, bizarre hygiene, dangerous beauty, forgotten drugs, disease, survival, work, food, and private customs, each episode reveals what life was really like for ordinary people throughout history. Calm, carefully researched narration turns even history’s strangest subjects into relaxing stories designed for sleep.…
Recent episodes
- The Dirty Jobs of Ancient Rome5 Oct · 27 min
- The Strange World of Traveling Medicine Shows28 Sept · 30 min
- How Cities Smelled Before Modern Sanitation20 Sept · 37 min
- The Strange History of Plague Doctors13 Sept · 34 min
- How People Went to the Bathroom in the Ancient World7 Sept · 32 min
- The Bizarre Medical Treatments of Ancient Egypt31 Aug · 33 min
- The Horrifying World of Medieval Dentistry24 Aug · 30 min
- Inside the Lives of Roman Prostitutes17 Aug · 32 min
- Drugs and Visions in the Ancient World10 Aug · 35 min
- A Day at the Roman Colosseum3 Aug · 34 min
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