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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My Story
Dr Tré Ventour-Griffiths (me) is a sociologist-historian, creative writer, and UK Black history consultant whose work addresses racism and regional travel, Caribbean diasporas and UK regional archives, popular culture and nostalgia, hauntings and violence, creative writing and historical documentation, and spoken word and memoir.
His most recent writing includes the upcoming working paper ‘Whiteness Quantomania: Microaggressions, Subatomic Racism, and the Multiverse of White Supremacy’ (University of Bath, 2026) and the book chapter ‘My Name is Covered in Blood’ featured in the upcoming Troubling the Island Story: The Impact and Legacy of Catherine Hall’s Historical Work in and beyond Britain (Bloomsbury, Oct 2026). My work in pop culture looks at the way cultural texts like films, TV, and comics can speak to our world and teach us things. I have written and presented on texts like Marvel films, Star Trek, horror, Disney, and period dramas, from Jane Austen to Call the Midwife. As a travelling scholar-creative, I write on Substack under The Avid Pedestrian.
My 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. As far as writing, I have published with Northampton (i.e The Nenequirer) and wider national publications (i.e Penguin Random House) in, essays, poetry, journalism and academic writing. Most recently, I had a chapter featured in Adapting Bridgerton (2024) – an edited book about the hit Netflix series.
With my creative-scholarly work covering varied areas like sociology, criminology, film, media, literature, history, museums, archives and more, my approach to issues makes me unique when working with organisations. This is why organisations and individuals continue to work with me, from schools to community groups.
My writing, research, educational talks, workshops, 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 me visiting you (in-person or online), get in touch via the contact form.
May – July 2026
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
