Dr Tré
Sociologist-Historian, Creative Writer, Black History Consultant...
Consultant, Historian, Sociologist, Creative.
I haved worked with a number of organisations, including schools, advocacy groups, universities and prisons. To date, one of the experiences I find most rewarding is the essay cluster I was part of with historian Dr Kerry Sinanan, entertainment journalist Amanda-Rae Prescott and historical costuming expert Bianca Hernandez-Knight onthe work of Jane Austen.
At the moment, I am working on a peer-reviewed book chapter using the UK slave compensation records to write Jane Austen’s characters back into the history of enslavement/ This is for Kerry and fellow historian Dr Désha Osborne’s upcoming book Jane Austen and the Making of Regency Whiteness (publishing sometime in 2027).
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DR TRÉ VENTOUR-GRIFFITHS is a freelance sociologist-creative writer, historian, speaker, and Black history consultant with interests in place history, hauntings, pop culture, and violence: from the overt to the institutional. His most recent projects have examined Northants post/wartime Caribbean history, questions of colonial property in Bridgerton and Jane Austen screen adaptations, and Marvel lore as a way to extend anti-racist theory.
His PhD research, Northamptonshire’s Caribbean: A Ghost Story, Post-1940, used UK Black horror as a method for telling a history of Caribbean Northants in decay due to the early deaths of elders. Grounded in the rural-town of Northamptonshire, his PhD investigation foregrounded a Black community history starting with the prewar rural Caribbean before 1948 and wartime Northants with the arrival of African American GIs and then moving into the arrivals of Caribbean folks from 1948 onwards. He used Black horror as a method to explore stories in decay shaped by early Black death of elders.
His practice, inside and outside of academia, extends into pop culture, digital culture, and speculative worldbuilding having produced work about Jane Austen, Bridgerton, Peaky Blinders, Marvel films and TV, Pokémon, and smartphones… further to using popular culture texts to illuminate stuctural inequalities and the politics of representation. At university level, he has taught and / or contributed in areas like sociology, criminology, history, media, neuroscience, film, health, English lit, creative writing, and more.
As an independent speaker-writer, he has delivered for various including heritage organisations, theatres, universities, schools, community organisations, private sector, and more in areas like racial literacy, decolonisation, UK Black regional pasts and disability. He has written for small and big platforms including JMB Consulting, Policy Press, Warwick District Council, NN Journal, Penguin Random House, and others. Tré has also been interviewed by national and regional media, and appeared on podcasts discussing Black British regional history, social justice, and culture.
With his creative-scholarly work covering varied areas, his approach makes him unique to work with. This is why organisations and individuals continue to work with him. His writing, research, educational talks, workshops, consultancy, and wider expertise have been engaged with widely.
If you are interested in work with him (in-person or online), get in touch via the contact form.
2026 Recents
Arts University Plymouth
Lecture – "Haunted while Black: Museums, From Psychogeography to The Paranormal" (Taught Class)
Race and Leadership Conference (Northampton)
Paper – Academic Race-Play: Who Is 'Licensed' to Tell British Imperial History?
University of Cambridge - Archives of Care: Black Health Histories in Twentieth Century Britain (Symposium)
Paper – "Black Ghost Studies: Regional England's Disappearing Nurses, Post-1950"
Popular Culture’s Queer Worlds
Black History Speaks
