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John Grindrod

@Grindrod

Social historian of modern places. Currently researching c20 suburban queer history. Disappointingly unserious. 🌈 Look me up on other social platforms

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Watching 80s TOTP compilations and there’s moments of Fine Young Cannibals (Johnny Come Home) and Wham! (Everything She Wants) casually drifting into choreographed dance moves out of nowhere that is genuinely joyous and I can’t quite explain why

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The wonderful adaptation of Muriel Spark’s Memento Mori is on BBC4 right now. I chose this book when I was on Backlisted Podcast and cannot recommend this TV version enough bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

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I you are a Charles Holden fan, then you need to get along to University of London Senate House, on the first floor, to see the exhibition 'Charles Holden's Masterplan: Building the Bloomsbury Campus'
Loads to see, including architectural models, images & artefacts. london.ac.uk/news-events/ev…

I you are a Charles Holden fan, then you need to get along to @UoLondon Senate House, on the first floor, to see the exhibition 'Charles Holden's Masterplan: Building the Bloomsbury Campus' Loads to see, including architectural models, images & artefacts. london.ac.uk/news-events/ev…
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Looking for LGBTQ people of colour to talk about their experience of British suburbia for my book Tales of the Suburbs johngrindrod.co.uk/lgbtqsuburbia

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Had an anxiety dream that I was asked to sing at a Dale Cornish gig, which will probably cause an anxiety dream in Dale Cornish that people will attempt to sing at his gigs

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Adam’s mum just revealed that she was given this tin of what she called ‘germolene’ 61 years ago, and it’s still half full

Adam’s mum just revealed that she was given this tin of what she called ‘germolene’ 61 years ago, and it’s still half full
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Here's a lovely set of New Towns images and records collated by archivists in the New Jerusalems project:
exploreyourarchive.org/spotlight-2/ex…

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