History worth staying up for. Told slowly enough to fall asleep to.Past Your Bedtime: History to Sleep To takes you deep into the people, places, conflicts, and turning points that shaped our world — through long-form historical storytelling designed for late-night listening.Each episode explores a chapter of history in rich detail, from royal courts and distant battlefields to political intrigue, collapsing empires, remarkable personalities, and the everyday lives of people caught in extraordinary times.Narrated in a calm, measured style, these extended episodes give history room to breathe. There’s no rushing through the story and no need to reac...
Latest episodes
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The Line Drawn in the Mountains — Pontiac’s War and the Proclamation of 1763
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!After the Treaty of Paris transferred an inland empire on paper, Jeffrey Amh…
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1 h 51
The Long Night of Prussia — From Kunersdorf to the Peaces of 1763
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In the second half of the Seven Years' War, Frederick the Great survives nea…
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1 h 58
The World Reversed — Kaunitz, Frederick, and the Opening of the Seven Years’ War
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!After Aix-la-Chapelle left Silesia in Prussian hands, Wenzel Anton von Kauni…
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2 h 02
The Pragmatic Queen — Maria Theresa and the War of the Austrian Succession
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In October 1740 the Habsburg emperor died without a son and left his lands t…
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1 h 44
The Last Rising — Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In the summer of 1745 a young Stuart prince landed among the Outer Hebrides…
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1 h 49
The Georgia Experiment
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1732 a group of London Trustees tried to build a different kind of Britis…
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2 h 33
The Republic of Pirates
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In the summer of 1715 a hurricane destroyed the Spanish treasure fleet off t…
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1 h 54
Blackbeard, Pirates & the South Sea Bubble | 1715–1721
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The war is over, thousands of armed sailors are suddenly unemployed, and the…
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2 h 14
The Great Frost of 1709
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1 h 49
The Window on the Baltic: Peter the Great and the Great Northern War
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!At the dawn of the eighteenth century, Sweden dominated the Baltic and a you…