Calm Bedtime History

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Long, calm history to fall asleep to. Every day: a new 3 – 4 hour narrated journey through medieval Europe, ancient empires, and forgotten ages. Paced for drifting minds. No hooks. No shouting. Just history, a fireplace, and a good night's sleep.

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    Alexander’s Persian Campaign: From Granicus to Persepolis, 334–330 BC | Calm Bedtime History

    In May 334 BC, Alexander’s army crossed the Granicus River in north-western Asia Minor and began the campaign that would break Achaemenid power. Over the next four years, the army would pass through Anatolia, the Levant, Egypt and Mesopotamia before entering Persepolis in 330 BC.

    Alexander’s Persian Campaign: From Granicus to Persepolis, 334–330 BC | Calm Bedtime History

  2. 1d ago

    Sargon of Akkad and the Rise and Unravelling of the World’s First Territorial Empire, c. 2334–2154 BC | Calm Bedtime History

    At Uruk, in the middle of the twenty-fourth century BC, the army of Sargon of Akkad defeated Lugalzagesi and brought the southern city-states beneath a new royal house. Beyond the river plain, officials, soldiers and scribes began to connect distant communities to the still-unfound city of Akkad.

    Sargon of Akkad and the Rise and Unravelling of the World’s First Territorial Empire, c. 2334–2154 BC | Calm Bedtime History

  3. 2d ago

    Alexander the Great: Eleven Years from Macedon to the Indus | Calm Bedtime History

    In the spring of 334 BC, Alexander crossed the Hellespont with the army his father Philip had prepared, leaving Europe behind for the Persian satrapies of Asia. Eleven years later, in June 323 BC, he lay ill in Babylon, thirty-two years old, with the Indus behind him and no settled succession ahead.

    Alexander the Great: Eleven Years from Macedon to the Indus | Calm Bedtime History

  4. 3d ago

    The Fever Code: How WICKED Built the Maze | Calm Bedtime History

    In the years before the first lift rose into the Glade, Thomas and Teresa lived inside WICKED’s research complex in an Alaskan forest. There, among classrooms, medical rooms and a cavern under construction, the children who would become the Gladers were prepared for an experiment they had not consented to enter.

    The Fever Code: How WICKED Built the Maze | Calm Bedtime History

  5. 3d ago

    The Fremen of Arrakis: Life Beneath the Desert | Calm Bedtime History

    Before dawn, in the years of Harkonnen rule over Arrakis, a Fremen community prepares to leave its sietch and cross the open desert. In the cool darkness beneath the rock, every stillsuit is checked, every water store is guarded, and every footstep is considered before the sun rises.

    The Fremen of Arrakis: Life Beneath the Desert | Calm Bedtime History

  6. 5d ago

    Leto II and the Golden Path: The God Emperor of Dune | Calm Bedtime History

    On Rakis, formerly Arrakis, roughly three and a half thousand years after Paul Atreides seized the Imperial throne, Leto II presides over a quiet court in a world changed by forests, canals, and carefully rationed spice. His enormous sandworm body moves through this altered landscape while the empire he has disciplined for millennia waits for the end he has already foreseen.

    Leto II and the Golden Path: The God Emperor of Dune | Calm Bedtime History

  7. 6d ago

    The Rings of Power and the Last Alliance of Elves and Men in the Late Second Age | Calm Bedtime History

    In S.A. 1600, beneath the red slopes of Mount Doom, Sauron forged the One Ring while the Elves of Eregion concealed the Three Rings they had made. Over the centuries that followed, ruined Eregion, the kingdoms of Arnor and Gondor, and the armies of the Last Alliance drew the story eastward to Orodruin.

    The Rings of Power and the Last Alliance of Elves and Men in the Late Second Age | Calm Bedtime History

  8. Aug 20

    The Second Rebellion of Panem: Propaganda, Civil War, and the Search for a Republic | Calm Bedtime History

    In the autumn of the seventy-fifth year after the first rebellion, Katniss Everdeen entered the clock-shaped arena of the third Quarter Quell. Within hours, its force field was broken, her rescue had begun, and Panem’s hidden rebellion was moving into open war.

    The Second Rebellion of Panem: Propaganda, Civil War, and the Search for a Republic | Calm Bedtime History
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Long, calm history to fall asleep to. Every day: a new 3 – 4 hour narrated journey through medieval Europe, ancient empires, and forgotten ages. Paced for drifting minds. No hooks. No shouting. Just history, a fireplace, and a good night's sleep.

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