Sam Grinsell
@samgrinsell.bsky.social
Historian trying to help build better worlds 🇵🇸🌈✊🏳️⚧️
Coming into Book Buying Age around the time this was a best seller gave me a really misleading sense mainstream non-fiction publishing:
October 20, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Coming into Book Buying Age around the time this was a best seller gave me a really misleading sense mainstream non-fiction publishing:
Found the suburban street Sauron retires to
September 7, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Found the suburban street Sauron retires to
After we're done with gender this should be the only ways toilets are organised
[Except for paying obviously]
[Except for paying obviously]
August 19, 2025 at 9:39 PM
After we're done with gender this should be the only ways toilets are organised
[Except for paying obviously]
[Except for paying obviously]
Novak Djokovic, the arch competitor, the crank, the sculptor of his body into the ultimate victory machine. The Christiano Ronaldo of tennis
August 16, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Novak Djokovic, the arch competitor, the crank, the sculptor of his body into the ultimate victory machine. The Christiano Ronaldo of tennis
Nadal as the greatest on the big stage, the winner of everything, oozing flair and power. Winning even when he can barely stand. Has to be Messi
August 16, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Nadal as the greatest on the big stage, the winner of everything, oozing flair and power. Winning even when he can barely stand. Has to be Messi
Federer would surely have had the effortless grace and mastery of Andrea Pirlo
August 16, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Federer would surely have had the effortless grace and mastery of Andrea Pirlo
What a glorious day to be a Crystal Palace fan! Whatever happens next, we'll remember that 3-0 for a long time
April 26, 2025 at 11:17 PM
What a glorious day to be a Crystal Palace fan! Whatever happens next, we'll remember that 3-0 for a long time
I will never stop pointing out that any analysis of the Brexit vote that ignores the Surrey golf courses where a strong proportion of the comfortably off decided to vote leave to shake things up a bit is a failure to grasp the politics of 2016
![Screenshot from the London Review of Books:
"ruling Conservative Party, under both internal pressure and the threat of losing voters to Ukip, allowed a referendum on membership of the European Union which its leaders assumed would produce a fairly easy victory for the status quo, given that three-quarters of MPs, the totality of high finance and big business, the top levels of trade-union bureaucracy and the massed ranks of the country’s intelligentsia and cultural establishment all favoured continuing membership. To general astonishment, a clear-cut majority of the population voted for exit from Europe, with a much higher turnout than in general elections. Decisive in the result was the revolt of the most abandoned regions and classes of the country against the bipartisan neoliberal establishment that had been continuously in power since the 1990s. This was the first time a populist rebellion became the expression of a political majority in any capitalist country, and in so doing altered the course of its history. [The rest of the text is highlighted] It was a revolt orchestrated by forces of the right: Ukip, the traditionalist wing of the Conservative Party and most of the tabloid press. But its success rested on their mobilisation of widespread parts of the population that had in the past been bastions of the labourist left."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j52c3vci6gcg4ea3hcrytn3p/bafkreicecbukq6hpbetn6fccgw6ydj7lbgwxj35j2jyiaqn754lrxpnsre@jpeg)
April 5, 2025 at 9:39 AM
I will never stop pointing out that any analysis of the Brexit vote that ignores the Surrey golf courses where a strong proportion of the comfortably off decided to vote leave to shake things up a bit is a failure to grasp the politics of 2016
It was in response to this post, which I still think is a pretty crass way of responding to Trump's early weeks:
April 4, 2025 at 10:34 AM
It was in response to this post, which I still think is a pretty crass way of responding to Trump's early weeks:
Trump has lost the Daily Heil
March 1, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Trump has lost the Daily Heil
Tfw you see something that doesn't look right
February 28, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Tfw you see something that doesn't look right
Tell me I'm not the only football fan who, whenever [Jared] Bowen is mentioned, pictures Dennis Quaid
February 22, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Tell me I'm not the only football fan who, whenever [Jared] Bowen is mentioned, pictures Dennis Quaid
Going to tell all my Anglo pals that the beat fusili comes from Pasta del Capitano
January 27, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Going to tell all my Anglo pals that the beat fusili comes from Pasta del Capitano
Late stage tech capitalism in the form of a plastic tray:
December 25, 2024 at 2:13 PM
Late stage tech capitalism in the form of a plastic tray:
This gives me the opportunity to point out something that's always bugged me about a book I'm published in: look at how the cover isn't fitted right to the pages. Yes, printed in the UK (and will cost you north of £100)
November 29, 2024 at 12:41 PM
This gives me the opportunity to point out something that's always bugged me about a book I'm published in: look at how the cover isn't fitted right to the pages. Yes, printed in the UK (and will cost you north of £100)
Attending the national day of action for Palestine at UCL
November 28, 2024 at 12:24 PM
Attending the national day of action for Palestine at UCL
I'm getting mindflayer vibes
November 26, 2024 at 8:57 AM
I'm getting mindflayer vibes
So for the last couple of weeks I've been walking, cycling, travelling by boat and train in the Netherlands and Belgium. Some more pictures to finish 😁
November 22, 2024 at 11:49 AM
So for the last couple of weeks I've been walking, cycling, travelling by boat and train in the Netherlands and Belgium. Some more pictures to finish 😁
This year I've been thinking of ways to bring together archival study of the past with direct experience of contemporary environments to develop new accounts of space/place. I'm now just finishing a research trip that's part of this
November 22, 2024 at 11:16 AM
This year I've been thinking of ways to bring together archival study of the past with direct experience of contemporary environments to develop new accounts of space/place. I'm now just finishing a research trip that's part of this