What Did Washington's Army Actually Do All Winter at Valley Forge? Settle in for a calm, softly spoken history for sleep story built for bedtime listening.

Tonight's connected stories: The Hut Has to Work, Before the Ration Reaches the Pot, The Same Movement, Together, and What the Ground and Paper Remember.

More than two hours of softly spoken narration with gentle fire ambience to help you fall asleep, ease insomnia, relax, study, or enjoy as quiet background while you read. The humour is lightest at the start and fades as the episode becomes calmer.

Chapters:

0:00 The Hut Has to Work

54:37 Before the Ration Reaches the Pot

1:28:54 The Same Movement, Together

1:57:08 What the Ground and Paper Remember

2:22:41 Fire ambience

Fire ambience: "Little fire.ogg" by Glaneur de sons, CC BY 3.0.

Watch Long Ago Tonight on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsZneUYXYB8MyH-hFfIilkg

Why Did Entire Swiss Villages Move Uphill Every Summer? Settle in for a calm, softly spoken history for sleep story built for bedtime listening.

Tonight's connected stories: A House That Stays While Work Climbs, The Water That Has an Appointment, Hay From Where Cows Cannot Stand, and The Oven That Wakes a Few Times a Year.

More than two hours of softly spoken narration with gentle fire ambience to help you fall asleep, ease insomnia, relax, study, or enjoy as quiet background while you read. The humour is lightest at the start and fades as the episode becomes calmer.

Chapters:

0:00 A House That Stays While Work Climbs

53:00 The Water That Has an Appointment

1:25:16 Hay From Where Cows Cannot Stand

1:51:28 The Oven That Wakes a Few Times a Year

2:19:12 Fire ambience

Fire ambience: "Little fire.ogg" by Glaneur de sons, CC BY 3.0.

Watch Long Ago Tonight on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsZneUYXYB8MyH-hFfIilkg

What Did Polynesian Navigators Watch All Night? Settle in for a calm, softly spoken history for sleep story built for bedtime listening.

Tonight's connected stories: Holding the Course Through the Night, Learning the Sea Until It Becomes Usable, Reading Land Before Seeing It, and The Watch Passes Forward.

More than two hours of softly spoken narration with gentle fire ambience to help you fall asleep, ease insomnia, relax, study, or enjoy as quiet background while you read. The humour is lightest at the start and fades as the episode becomes calmer.

Chapters:

0:00 Holding the Course Through the Night

50:38 Learning the Sea Until It Becomes Usable

1:22:41 Reading Land Before Seeing It

1:48:48 The Watch Passes Forward

2:20:26 Fire ambience

Fire ambience: "Little fire.ogg" by Glaneur de sons, CC BY 3.0.

Watch Long Ago Tonight on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsZneUYXYB8MyH-hFfIilkg

Venice Is Standing on a Buried Forest. Settle in for a calm, softly spoken history for sleep story built for bedtime listening.

Tonight's connected stories: A Wall on the Lagoon, Keeping a Rio Open, The Well That Waits for Rain, and Reading the Threshold.

More than two hours of softly spoken narration with gentle fire ambience to help you fall asleep, ease insomnia, relax, study, or enjoy as quiet background while you read. The humour is lightest at the start and fades as the episode becomes calmer.

Chapters:

0:00 A Wall on the Lagoon

52:04 Keeping a Rio Open

1:24:59 The Well That Waits for Rain

1:52:26 Reading the Threshold

2:23:20 Fire ambience

Fire ambience: "Little fire.ogg" by Glaneur de sons, CC BY 3.0.

Watch Long Ago Tonight on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsZneUYXYB8MyH-hFfIilkg

What Did a Persian Qanat Do Underground for Three Thousand Years? Settle in for a calm, softly spoken history for sleep story built for bedtime listening.

Tonight's connected stories: The Line Beneath the Plain, Water by the Minute, Keeping the Tunnel Alive, and The Same Water Under Other Names.

More than two hours of softly spoken narration with gentle fire ambience to help you fall asleep, ease insomnia, relax, study, or enjoy as quiet background while you read. The humour is lightest at the start and fades as the episode becomes calmer.

Chapters:

0:00 The Line Beneath the Plain

53:20 Water by the Minute

1:23:36 Keeping the Tunnel Alive

1:47:03 The Same Water Under Other Names

2:11:38 Fire ambience

Fire ambience: "Little fire.ogg" by Glaneur de sons, CC BY 3.0.

Watch Long Ago Tonight on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsZneUYXYB8MyH-hFfIilkg

How Did a Mongol Camp Move an Entire Household? Settle in for a calm, softly spoken history for sleep story built for bedtime listening.

Tonight's connected stories: The House Becomes a Load, How the Ger Holds Together, Reading the Pasture, and Milk, Fire, and a Place for a Traveler.

More than two hours of softly spoken narration with gentle fire ambience to help you fall asleep, ease insomnia, relax, study, or enjoy as quiet background while you read. The humour is lightest at the start and fades as the episode becomes calmer.

Chapters:

0:00 The House Becomes a Load

50:27 How the Ger Holds Together

1:22:32 Reading the Pasture

1:49:21 Milk, Fire, and a Place for a Traveler

2:18:13 Fire ambience

Fire ambience: "Little fire.ogg" by Glaneur de sons, CC BY 3.0.

Watch Long Ago Tonight on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsZneUYXYB8MyH-hFfIilkg

Who Actually Copied the Books That Survived the Dark Ages? Settle in for a calm, softly spoken history for sleep story built for bedtime listening.

Tonight's connected stories: Hands Around the Page, The Scribe Whose Name Survived, Writing Between Old Lines, and The Little Red Gospel.

More than two hours of softly spoken narration with gentle fire ambience to help you fall asleep, ease insomnia, relax, study, or enjoy as quiet background while you read. The humour is lightest at the start and fades as the episode becomes calmer.

Chapters:

0:00 Hands Around the Page

53:35 The Scribe Whose Name Survived

1:25:18 Writing Between Old Lines

1:50:49 The Little Red Gospel

2:20:34 Fire ambience

Fire ambience: "Little fire.ogg" by Glaneur de sons, CC BY 3.0.

Watch Sleep vs History on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/@SleepVsHistory

What Was It Like to Be Posted on Hadrian's Wall? Settle in for a calm, softly spoken history for sleep story built for bedtime listening.

Tonight's connected stories: A New Posting at Vindolanda, The Clerk and the Missing Total, Work Beyond the Fort Gate, and What the Objects Will Say.

More than two hours of softly spoken narration with gentle fire ambience to help you fall asleep, ease insomnia, relax, study, or enjoy as quiet background while you read. The humour is lightest at the start and fades as the episode becomes calmer.

Chapters:

0:00 A New Posting at Vindolanda

51:27 The Clerk and the Missing Total

1:23:13 Work Beyond the Fort Gate

1:49:56 What the Objects Will Say

2:19:55 Fire ambience

Fire ambience: "Little fire.ogg" by Glaneur de sons, CC BY 3.0.

Watch Sleep vs History on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/@SleepVsHistory