Ed Grimble

Teacher of English @GandLSchool. Words and essays in print on literature, cities, rivers, and walking.

[Ed Grimble @EdwardFGrimble]

No trace of Matthew Allen’s High Beach ‘asylum’, but mercifully no rain (yet) either; following John Clare’s 1841 ‘Journey Out of Essex’ from Epping to Helpston. ‘Having only honest courage and myself in my army, I led the way and my troops soon followed’.

[Ed Grimble @EdwardFGrimble]

Wonderful to be speaking in Aarhus today for the Dickens Society on ‘Thinking on His Feet: Walking, Restlessness, and Embodied Thought’— Dickens’ striding and scribbling, and his need for streets in which to be ‘rid of my spectres’. @Dickens_Society #DickensSociety2026

[Ed Grimble @EdwardFGrimble]

@becimay Ah, this is great! I teach ‘Mrs Dalloway’ and ‘Richard III’ at A Level, and Bergson & Fitzgerald’s lines are always handy for teeing up a ‘penny drop’ moment of looking at Woolf’s Septimus & Shakespeare’s Clarence. They’ll love a side-by-side of those exact Berg. & Fitz. lines!

[Ed Grimble @EdwardFGrimble]

@CLEdwall ‘First fictional detective’: that has really annoyed me…
And obviously we’re all voraciously tucking into Kingsley Amis novels. Dive onto any tube carriage, and you can’t move for copies of The Green Man…

[Simon Beale @SPBeale]

Study Humanities. Run the Country.
In classrooms on Monday.

[Jordan @jordanbhx]

Urbanists know that you do not have to choose between sustainability, connectivity, prosperity, affordability and vibrancy - they're all complementary. It's just that in order to enrich the very wealthy we've had places foisted on us that don't exemplify any of these things.

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

An aid truck filled with medical and nutritional supplies for 10,000 Gazan children was turned around for “no reason” - James Elder, a spokesperson for Unicef, told us.

[Ed Grimble @EdwardFGrimble]

@johnharris1969 Looks like that could be the Old Vicarage! Stayed there when I walked Hadrian’s Wall last year—lovely owners, & so glad to see it’s still thriving. Best of luck for the next days’ wandering!

[david wheatley @nemoloris]

Tennyson once attempted to leave a room ‘through the fire-place’.

[Tom Bateman @tombateman]

Foreign Press Association presses again for immediate access to Gaza raising “questions about what Israel does not want international journalists to see”. The US administration has also pressed Netanyahu directly on the issue, still no change.

[Ed Grimble @EdwardFGrimble]

“So here I am hopeless at home”, Clare’s account concludes. A “foot-foundered”, forlorn, fragmented fugueur, at home in Northborough that night Clare turns away from his wife Patty and pens two songs to the revered, imagined, Mary. “I've wandered many a weary mile”, he begins.

[Ed Grimble @EdwardFGrimble]

No trace of Matthew Allen’s High Beach ‘asylum’, but mercifully no rain (yet) either; following John Clare’s 1841 ‘Journey Out of Essex’ from Epping to Helpston. ‘Having only honest courage and myself in my army, I led the way and my troops soon followed’.

[Ed Grimble @EdwardFGrimble]

Clare had expected to find Mary Joyce, his first love from his days working at the Bluebell Inn in Helpston, waiting at home. In reality, she had died in 1838, ‘Accidentally Burnt’. Clare then, “took no notice of the lie, having seen her myself twelve months ago, alive and well”.

[The Guardian @guardian]

‘Not a normal war’: doctors say children have been targeted by Israeli snipers in Gaza https://t.co/UkZxFLDcTo

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

“If there is proper evidence that Israel is not abiding by international law” — what planet are these people on? There has is endless evidence, video after video, expert after expert — Israel does not abide by int law even when it’s not bombing Gaza.

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

Israel blames everyone but itself for the starvation in Gaza: "From Cairo, Egypt’s capital, we drove 12 hours east to the Rafah border. We passed miles of parked humanitarian aid trucks because they weren’t allowed into Gaza." By Israel. https://t.co/VIsur2yCAw

[Ed Grimble @EdwardFGrimble]

@scriblerian The ever-entertaining Stephen Cheeke is always a decent bet for all things ekphrastic