Tré Ventour
Cosmic Sociologist, Historian, Writer, Independent Researcher...
Tré has worked with a number of organisations, including schools, universities and prisons. To date, one of the experiences he finds most interesting is the essay cluster he was part of with historian Dr Kerry Sinanan, entertainment journalist Amanda-Rae Prescott and historical costuming expert Bianca Hernandez-Knight about the work of Jane Austen, racism, fandom, and the British Empire.
At the moment, Tré is working on a book chapter using the slave compensation records to write Jane Austen’s white women back into the history of enslavement – not as passive observers, but as active participants. This is for Kerry and fellow historian Dr Désha Osborne’s upcoming book Jane Austen and the Making of Regency Whiteness (publishing sometime in late 2025, early 2026).
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My Story
Tré Ventour-Griffiths is a cosmic sociologist-historian, creative, writer, journalist, theorist, and public speaker who speaks/writes on subjects broadly contained within UK Black town and rural histories, pop culture, neurodivergence, and insurgent politics. He is currently finishing a PhD in creative writing about the postwar Caribbean history of Northants, 1942-90. It aims to show largely Black experiences of wartime England move beyond London and other major cities, like in the Town and Countryside.
As far as writing, Tré has published with local Northampton journalism outlets since 2017 (i.e The Nenequirer). Further to poetry in print (i.e Penguin Random House) while also having event experience going back over a decade. He also writes lots academically, most recently featured in Adapting Bridgerton (2024) – an edited book about the hit Netflix series. He has also runs Medium pages in both long-form writing and poetry.
External to his PhD and creative writing work, he is working on multi-pronged approaches to bringing period dramas into conversation with subject areas like Race and Whiteness Studies. Meanwhile, his other work on popular culture uses multiple superhero properties as central talking points about oppression, privilege, inequality and violence. Central to his work developing a conceptual framing that joins popular science fiction with ‘traditional’ academic scholarship. Pop culture is a tool for willing learners to attach their thinking – an ‘entry’ into complex topics.
His educational sessions, consultancy, and wider expertise have been engaged with by both private and public sector organisations including community groups, schools, heritage organisations, universities, finance companies and more. If you are interested in Tré visiting your institution or community group (in-person or online), get in touch via the contact form.
July – October 2024
British Society of Criminology Conference (University of Stratclyde)
Paper - "Colonialism in the Metropolis: Policing Black Wellingborough, 1972-85"
Early Caribbean Society
Guest Lecture - Grenada Revisited: 100 Years of Family History-ish, 1927-2024
Social (In)Justice and Popular Culture
Black History Speaks
