Boring History For Sleep: How many chickens did medieval royalty eat at a feast?

Tonight, we drift back to a candlelit scriptorium in the Tower of London, the year 1304, where a young royal clerk named Thomas of Windsor is quietly drowning in numbers he cannot quite believe. Thirteen tuns of wine. Over seventeen hundred chickens. A feast so vast it defies imagination — and yet somehow, every single detail of it was real, recorded by hand, in a ledger not so different from the one Thomas keeps by candlelight. This is a slow, gentle, deeply researched journey through the hidden machinery of a medieval royal Christmas — the wardrobe clerks who tracked every penny, the laundresses who preserved the finest cloth in England, the spice merchants who crossed half the known world for a handful of saffron, and the quiet, homesick queen who sent for citrus fruit from a homeland she left behind as a child. No jump scares. No cliffhangers. Just soft, steady narration, rich historical detail, and a story built to slow your mind down until sleep finds you somewhere along the way. 🕯️ Perfect for falling asleep, relaxing after a long day, or drifting off to something a little more interesting than counting sheep. If this story helped you fall asleep, consider subscribing for more slow, soothing, surprisingly true history — new episodes every week. And if you have a history topic you'd love turned into a bedtime story, drop it in the comments below. Sweet dreams. 🌙 #SleepStory #HistoryForSleep #BoringHistory #MedievalHistory #FallAsleepFast #SleepPodcast #RelaxingStory #BedtimeStoryForAdults #HistoryPodcast #InsomniaRelief