John Grindrod
@grindrod.bsky.social
Social historian of modern places. Tales of the Suburbs, on LGBTQ+ history, out now. Wrote Concretopia and Outskirts. Disappointingly unserious. Podcast: Monstrosities Mon Amour Find out more: https://linktr.ee/johngrindrod
Looking at a lot of Pre-Raphaelite art in the gallery in Birmingham. Singing ‘You stopped us from killing each other (Burne-Jones Burne-Jones)…’
If you're working on some writing using interviews and archives and need some inspiration, I'm doing an Arvon online masterclass on telling people’s stories. Tuesday October 20th, 19:00-21:00. May contain dad jokes. www.arvon.org/writing-cour...
Masterclass: Telling true-life tales | Using interviews and archival sources | Arvon
How do you turn human stories into compelling prose? How do you combine interviews into a larger narrative, or use archival sources to bring long-lost voices to life? What can these voices bring to yo...
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Have been lapping-up @grindrod.bsky.social's excellent Monstrosities Mon Amour podcast, the stories behind the spaces/buildings are fascinating podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...
Monstrosities Mon Amour
Places & Travel Podcast · Monthly · Monstrosities Mon Amour celebrates places and things that have been unfairly dismissed. Host John Grindrod (author of Tales of the Suburbs and Concretopia) is your ...
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Off to Birmingham for a Tales of the Suburbs event at the book festival this evening. Very excited!
If you're working on some writing using interviews and archives and need some inspiration, I'm doing an Arvon online masterclass on telling people’s stories. Tuesday October 20th, 19:00-21:00. May contain dad jokes. www.arvon.org/writing-cour...
Masterclass: Telling true-life tales | Using interviews and archival sources | Arvon
How do you turn human stories into compelling prose? How do you combine interviews into a larger narrative, or use archival sources to bring long-lost voices to life? What can these voices bring to yo...
arvon.org
I really should do a whole pod episode on Stevenage. In the meantime, I talk a lot about Claxton's incredible - and visionary - work in its design on the wonderful "Monstrosities Mon Amour" with @grindrod.bsky.social here johngrindrod.substack.com/p/monstrosit...
Monstrosities Mon Amour: Stevenage with Gareth Edwards
#17. John Grindrod meets historian and podcaster Gareth Edwards for a trip to the dreamy cycle paths of Stevenage and the pleasures of a corned beef sandwich
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New INVENTORY by Andy Miller, available now via our Patreon. This week - Claude Debussy, Images, Série I. www.patreon.com/backlisted
Eva Marie Saint! So glorious and perfect in North by Northwest. Hard to think of anything that’s added more to the sum total of human happiness than that
Really excited to be doing this event in Sheffield on Sunday for the @otsfestival.bsky.social on Sunday offtheshelf.org.uk/events/tales...
Standard day: gave a tour of MK for some students, about to record a podcast about Poplar, got an AI scam email inviting me to an imaginary book club
The best and most accurate obit of Jeffrey Archer you will read ... brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/here-lies-...
Here lies Jeffrey Archer
The death of one of Britain’s most infamous liars brings back memories of Monica Coghlan.
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As ever, and for the last time in connection with lying shit Jeffrey Archer, we remember Monica Coghlan, whose life he destroyed.
Some mornings you guess the letter e correctly on a crossword and that seems enough
In the 70s Sister Sledge used to drive around in British cars. Their favourites were the Austin Music and Cortina Trap.
Enjoying Marble Hall Murders every bit as much as I disliked Moonflower Murders
Dear the creatures of the Amazon, please rapidly swarm over the Bolsonaros and do biting. Yours, everyone x
This week I’m talking Tales of the Suburbs in Birmingham and Sheffield www.johngrindrod.co.uk/events
Didn't get Glastonbury Tickets? Why not come to #DoctorWho #TargetBookClub on October 24th. We've a line-up of talks, readings, interactive prose poetry and Free Tea. bit.ly/smallbluebox
Croydon Harvest and the Walnut Fair continues today, and I’m chuffed to be part of @lornarees.bsky.social’s sound art piece Canopy
John Grindrod@grindrod.bsky.social · last wk.This weekend it's the Walnut Fair in Croydon. I made this track with musician Rufus Rees Coshan about the trees of my home town for @lornarees.bsky.social's sound installation Canopy. Hear and experience this and all the other pods and artworks in Queens Gardens www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2YP...
Mars's moon Phobos has a surface area almost exactly the same as the area of Hertfordshire
Love these guys so much (1967, by local architect Frank Murphy)
The foundational experience which established my appreciation of American Minimalism was watching the wipers sweep asynchronously across the windscreens of the Coventry buses of my childhood, perhaps fifteen years before I knew of the music's existence.
Off to Ipswich to do an event about Tales of the Suburbs this afternoon as part of the book festival. Do come along! www.johngrindrod.co.uk/events
This weekend it's the Walnut Fair in Croydon. I made this track with musician Rufus Rees Coshan about the trees of my home town for @lornarees.bsky.social's sound installation Canopy. Hear and experience this and all the other pods and artworks in Queens Gardens www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2YP...
Half-Timbered in Croydon
YouTube video by John Grindrod
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