Rebel History: History That Rattles

... because it matters. And history that matters rarely gets into textbooks.

What is Rebel History about?

Rebel historians know that textbook history rarely mattered to real people.

Thus, we tell the important stories.

There are stories of things that changed everything, yet we take them for granted, not realizing that our civilization would fall apart without them.

Like electricity, cars, effective treatment of diseases or afterbirth childcare.

But first and foremost, Rebel History is about fun. Because the stories that mattered, rattle our minds and read better than the textbooks!

Free mini-ebook for new subscribers:
History That Rattles: The Starter Pack
5 shockingly true stories your history teacher never told you — but you’ll want to retell at every dinner party.

✨ The Right to Light
When flipping a switch became a revolutionary act — and a girl’s candlelit wonder foretold a world where workers could dream.

⚔️ Caesar Crosses the Rubicon — and Nobody Knows
Before push alerts and breaking news, war arrived with no warning. Sometimes, your only clue was the sound of hooves.

🚂 The Train in the Woods
The First World War ended in a railway carriage... but history dragged that train back for vengeance.

👑 The Empire That Wasn’t
A barbarian crowned as a Roman emperor — and a thousand years of chaos born from one theatrical Christmas morning.

🍵 The Bloody History of Your Morning Tea
Beneath the scent of your Earl Grey lies a tale of deception, exploitation, and an earthquake that buried colonial dreams.

We tell the stories of significant events upside down.

Yes, WWI overwrote the political map of Europe, but did you know what it meant for the traditional gender roles?

Yes, WWII brought the death of tens of millions, yet did you stop to think of those hundreds of millions who survived and had to rebuild the world from the ashes?

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Meet Your Rebel Historian

I am Mgr. Barbora Jiřincová, PhD. I graduated with PhD at Charles University in 2019 with a dissertation on Women's history in the Counter-Reformation. I teach history at the Faculty of Education.

Apart from scholarly articles, mostly on women in the Early Modern Ages, I have written a book on Slavic Origins, which will be published in August 2024.

What I wrote?

History That Rattles: The Strange, Sharp, and Surprising Stories School Skipped — A Darkly Funny History of Survival

Read my own book on the Ancient Slavic Origins!

The Czechs, the Poles, Serbians, Bulgarians, and Eastern Slavs are in the book.

I come from Central Europe, the heart of Europe, and Prague, Czech Republic.

I daresay our history rarely made it to the Western or US history curriculum.

And there are the Poles, Austrians, Hungarians and even the Germans. Central European history played its part when Europe meant the world for Western civilization. And even later.

Anyway, the Czechoslovakian and Polish border marked the end of Soviet influence. We were on the less happy side of that border, and that is also our story.

I share Central European history, tell stories, explain what matters, and invite my countrymen to reevaluate what matters.

Because the more I learn, the more I see that national memory changes everything.

Thus, my stories from Central Europe may turn your history lessons upside down, as would yours, tearing apart the stories we tell our schoolchildren.

Because that is what historical memory is about.

Should you subscribe?

Subscribe; it is for free.

History is not what I do for a living; copywriting pays much better.

But who can tell?

Maybe this newsletter will show the world that history is worth paying for.

It is up to you, but primarily to me, to craft the stories that leave you standing in awe, which history deserves.