A Rainy Night in a Medieval Village | History for Sleep

History for sleep: spend a rainy November night in an English village around the year 1300. About 50 minutes of calm storytelling, then over two hours of soft music and rain visuals with no voice. Narration ends at 50:09. The walk home from the fields, supper by the open hearth, spinning by firelight, covering the embers for the night, and the quiet hours while the rain falls on the thatch. 🌙 Chapters 00:00 Good evening from the station 00:59 Tonight's folder: England, around 1300 02:05 Last light over the fields 09:09 The longhouse 13:45 Supper by the hearth 20:27 Spinning, mending and small repairs 26:40 Covering the fire for the night 31:31 Beds, blankets and the cow next door 37:19 The quiet hours 43:40 Before morning 49:28 Closing the folder 50:09 Soft music and rain visuals (no narration) 1:30:00 Deep night (no narration) 2:15:00 Toward morning (no narration) 📖 What is real and what is imagined The family and their house are imagined. The everyday details are based on what historians and archaeologists know about English village life around 1300: longhouses where people and animals lived under one roof, chalk and timber walls, thatched roofs, open hearths without chimneys, spinning with a spindle and distaff, and covering the fire for the night. Ideas about "first sleep" and "second sleep" come from later writings, and historians still debate them. Selected sources • English Heritage — History of Wharram Percy Deserted Medieval Village: https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/v... • Historic England — Wharram Percy, list entry 1011377: https://historicengland.org.uk/listin... • Historic England — Medieval long-house (list entry 1008231): https://historicengland.org.uk/listin... • Historic England — Field Systems: Introductions to Heritage Assets: https://historicengland.org.uk/images... • E. R. Standley, Spinning Yarns (Medieval Archaeology, 2016): https://doi.org/10.1080/00766097.2016... • A. R. Ekirch, Reflections on "Have we lost sleep?" (Medical History, 2024): https://doi.org/10.1017/mdh.2024.20 • N. Boyce, Have we lost sleep? (Medical History, 2023): https://doi.org/10.1017/mdh.2023.14 • Etymonline — curfew: https://www.etymonline.com/word/curfew 🕯️ About Sennet Station Every night, the observer at a small weather station opens one folder from the Weather Diaries: a night from another time, with weather like ours. History and science, told slowly, for sleep. The script is original, researched and fact-checked for this channel. The narration voice, illustrations and music were created with AI tools. This episode is an imagined historical reconstruction based on the sources above. #historyforsleep #sleepstory #medievalhistory