React Router: access history in rendered Route component

When you use render you actually get props. In the docs they have an example like this:

<Route {...rest} render={props => (
   <FadeIn>
       <Component {...props}/>
   </FadeIn>
 )}/>

So you should be able to access history from those props.

Another solution would be to conditionally render a <Redirect/> component. So maybe you have some internal state that you use like this:

// in your components render function.. 
if(this.state.shouldRedirect) { 
  return (<Redirect to={yourURL} />);
}