

Boring History for Sleep
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Welcome to Boring History to Sleep — the only show where falling asleep in the middle is not only allowed… it’s encouraged. Each episode takes you on a slow, uneventful stroll through the most yawn-worthy corners of the past: treaties nobody remembers, kings who ruled for three weeks, and revolutions that never really got started. Delivered in the softest, most sleep-inducing voice we could find, this show is like warm milk with a side of ancient trivia. Perfect for insomniacs, history nerds, and anyone who thinks a Roman tax policy discussion sounds like a lullaby.
Lay back, close your eyes
Lay back, close your eyes
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Oct 20, 2025 • 4h 36min
Bedtime Sleep Stories | 🔥 The Myth of Atlantis 🌊 | Greek Mythology
🌊✨ Long before explorers and satellites, the ancient Greeks told of a perfect island—Atlantis. A city of gold, knowledge, and beauty that vanished beneath the sea in a single, terrible night. But was it real… or just a warning from the philosopher Plato?Tonight, drift back thousands of years to a world of temples, crystal waters, and gods who watched from the sky. Hear the story of how Atlantis rose in glory—and disappeared in silence—leaving behind one of humanity’s greatest mysteries.Close your eyes, slow your breathing, and let the waves carry you to the edge of myth and memory.👉 Bedtime Sleep Stories | Calm voices, ancient secrets, and the gentle pull of the deep. 🌙💤

Oct 19, 2025 • 5h 22min
Boring History For Sleep | The Presidents Who Built (and Broke) America 🏛️
🇺🇸👔 From powdered wigs to Wi-Fi passwords, America’s presidents have seen it all—and caused plenty of it. Some led revolutions, some led scandals, and a few just led the country straight into confusion. One kept a pet raccoon, another got stuck in a bathtub, and at least one accidentally started a war over breakfast.Close your eyes and drift through 200 years of ambition, speeches, and questionable fashion choices. From George Washington’s wooden teeth (not really wood, but close enough) to modern presidents tweeting at 3 a.m., this is the strangely cozy saga of power, politics, and presidential naps.👉 Boring History For Sleep | Democracy, drama, and the sound of freedom… softly snoring. 💤

Oct 18, 2025 • 4h 18min
Boring History For Sleep | The Tragic High of 1920s Paris 💋💉
🎷💄 Paris in the 1920s was the world’s hangover and after-party rolled into one. The war was over, jazz was everywhere, and half the city was convinced heroin was just “creative inspiration in a bottle.” Artists, poets, and party people called it enlightenment—doctors called it a terrible idea.From smoky Montmartre clubs to glamorous salons where everyone was either painting or passing out, the heroin craze turned the City of Light into a glittering, tragic blur.So close your eyes and drift through a world of jazz, perfume, and questionable life choices—where everyone was chasing art, love, and the next high.👉 Boring History For Sleep | Paris, pain, and the prettiest disaster in history.

Oct 17, 2025 • 5h
Boring History For Sleep | Rome Conquered Greece… and Immediately Copied Everything 🏛️
Greece had the brains. Rome had the biceps. And when these two ancient overachievers finally met, it turned into the world’s most awkward power couple. Rome conquered Greece on the battlefield… then immediately fell in love with its art, philosophy, and fancy columns. Basically, Greece lost the war but won the vibe.From toga-wearing philosophers to emperors quoting Aristotle without knowing what it meant, this is the story of how Rome conquered Greece—and then couldn’t stop copying it.So close your eyes and drift through marble temples, dusty scrolls, and endless Latin bragging. Because in the ancient world, plagiarism wasn’t a crime—it was civilization.👉 Boring History For Sleep | Empires fall, cultures blend, and bedtime always wins. 💤

Oct 16, 2025 • 4h 9min
Boring History For Sleep | What Really Killed Elizabeth I 👑💀 (It Wasn’t Just Bad Makeup)
👑💀 The Virgin Queen ruled for more than four decades—but her final days were shrouded in mystery. Was it stress, poison, heartbreak, or something far stranger that ended the reign of Elizabeth I? From lead-filled makeup to political pressure and eerie omens, this story unravels the quiet tragedy behind one of history’s most powerful women.Close your eyes and drift into the candle-lit halls of Tudor England, where beauty could kill, loyalty was dangerous, and even queens couldn’t escape fate.👉 Boring History For Sleep | Royal secrets, fading crowns, and a whisper before the end.

Oct 15, 2025 • 4h 4min
Boring History For Sleep | The Gross Secret Life of Rich Medieval Nobles
💰👑 Everyone dreams of being rich in medieval times—castles, feasts, golden goblets... but reality check: it was awful. Your fancy silver plates leaked poison, your outfits weighed more than a small child, and your “toilet” was a hole that emptied straight into the moat. Romantic, right?Baths were optional (and by optional, we mean once per royal scandal), food came with a free side of dysentery, and servants saw everything—because privacy hadn’t been invented yet.So get comfy, and drift off to the glorious misery of medieval luxury: gout, moldy castles, and the sweet sound of regret echoing through your banquet hall.👉 Boring History For Sleep | Where even the rich couldn’t afford comfort—or soap.

Oct 15, 2025 • 4h 37min
Boring History For Sleep | When Moors Met Monarchs: Spain’s Medieval Drama 🌙👑
🌙⚔️ Medieval Spain was less a kingdom and more a centuries-long soap opera with swords. Moors, Christians, and Jews lived side by side—sometimes trading, sometimes fighting, always building something extraordinary. Cities sparkled with science, art, and arguments, while kings switched sides faster than you can say Reconquista.From the golden age of Al-Andalus to the final fall of Granada, this is the story of a land caught between faith and fire, beauty and betrayal.So settle in, close your eyes, and drift through a world of dusty roads, marble palaces, and far too many royal feuds.👉 Boring History For Sleep | Empires rise, kingdoms fall, and bedtime conquers all.

Oct 14, 2025 • 5h 16min
Boring History For Sleep | How Britain Survived the Dark Ages
🌑⚔️ When the Roman legions marched out of Britain, they left behind more than crumbling walls. What followed was a shadowy time of invasions, lost knowledge, and shifting kingdoms—the so-called “Dark Ages.” From Saxon raiders to mysterious ruins, from forgotten kings to the seeds of Arthurian legend, this was a world caught between collapse and rebirth.Lay back and drift into the misty past, where warlords ruled, myths were born, and history often feels more like a half-remembered dream.👉 Boring History For Sleep | Dark, foggy, and oddly soothing.

Oct 13, 2025 • 4h 47min
The Entire Story of Halloween 🎃👻 Boring History For Sleep
🎃👻 Halloween didn’t start with candy and costumes. Its roots go all the way back to ancient Celtic rituals of Samhain, where people lit bonfires to ward off spirits and wore disguises to trick wandering ghosts. Over centuries, those eerie traditions blended with Christian festivals, folk legends, and—eventually—pumpkins, trick-or-treating, and haunted houses.Close your eyes as we drift through the spooky yet fascinating history of Halloween—where myths, monsters, and midnight superstitions slowly turned into the holiday we know today.👉 Boring History For Sleep | Strange, spooky… and surprisingly relaxing.

Oct 12, 2025 • 4h 39min
Boring History For Sleep | Totally WRONG Medieval “Facts” Everyone Believes ⚔️📜
Boring History For Sleep | Totally WRONG Medieval “Facts” Everyone Believes ⚔️📜⚔️🕯️ Think knights wore shiny armor 24/7 and peasants never bathed? Think again. The Middle Ages weren’t nearly as filthy, cruel, or clueless as the myths make them sound. From misunderstood “dungeons” to those infamous turkey legs that never actually existed, we’re busting the biggest medieval lies one by one.Close your eyes and let history’s most stubborn myths crumble as you drift off to sleep—because sometimes, the truth is even stranger than the legends.👉 Boring History For Sleep | Myths shattered. Sleep restored.


