Katrina Navickas

@katrinanavickas.bsky.social

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Historian of protest, political movements and public space. My new book, Contested Commons, is out now: https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/contested-commons
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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · Oct 27

A reminder that my book on the history of protest is now published. It is superbly produced with a great cover. Buy it now from @reaktionbooks.bsky.social

Formidably erudite, compellingly argued, and dryly humorous, Contested Commons will change the way you think about the politics of space, the "myth of the commons", and the history of England since the eighteenth century: MATTHEW KELLy, author of The Women Who Saved the English Countryside
"Starting with Kennington Common, and ranging from Steeple Bumpstead to Sheffield, Stonehenge and Brixton, and with a cast that includes ramblers, ranters, revolutionaries and ravers, this is a superb, sweeping but fine-grained history. It's also a highly necessary, politically urgent reminder of what public space is - places for everyone, owned by everyone, accessible to everyone, whether carefully tended or wild - and what it isn't, the tradition of pseudo-public space that runs from Victorian parks to privatised malls.' OWEN HATHERLEY, author of A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 22h

The Edinburgh team have the best taste in music. Fact. #UniversityChallenge

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 1d

I have always thought it would be too clichéd to visit Wuppertal because of, you know, TRANSPORT NERDERY, but this might be a good reason to go.

Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · Oct 22

#163: Rudolf Steinbach and Horst Kohl, St. Antonius, Wuppertal (1969-73)

A truly extraordinary sanctuary with brick and concrete. The multiple rows of pews lead up to an altar that is framed wing-like by a brick and concrete structure. To the sides, tall concrete piers separating brick bays spring above head height. The space is dark above and amply lit below. Photo via https://www.antonius-wuppertal.de/start/

The church. The old structure of a church tower is to the left. To the right is the new church, which is largely faced in red brick with dark brick striations. The building has a flat roof but falls away sharply to the sides, as if a frog were sitting and had been squeezed into being a bit taller. The whole is along a busy street. There is anothe mass in between the tower and sanctuary. Photo via https://www.antonius-wuppertal.de/start/

A confirmation happening in the church. One can see how the light falls more into the lower area, and the extremely grand effect of the soaring space. Photo by Christoph Schönbach via Erzbistum Köln, https://www.erzbistum-koeln.de/news/Firmung-in-Sankt-Antonius-mit-Kardinal-Woelki-gefeiert/

A view of the other side of the church, showing how two diagonals cut through each other dramatically in red brick with dark striations. On the side away from the street, one can see high windows. Photo by Im Fokus via Wikimedia Commons

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 1d

Hello from History at the University of Hertfordshire, with a similar story to tell about research excellence.

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 1d

Also, they were aghast to see Ernö as a print on the wall of the £3k/month show flat in Balfron Tower. Truly, "an art" as Kate Wagner would describe it.

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 1d

It helps that this cohort in particular are so engaged in the thought experiment

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 1d

They rejected a Walter Seagal self build experiment as economically enviable for mass housing however

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 1d

Aha I was responding to the co-operative model they chose

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 1d

Very surprised but pleased I was

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 1d

Intriguingly, the Student New Town Development Corporation decided on a co-operative model for their residual council housing...

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 1d

🎵 "But he doesn't look a thing like Beyoncé"... 🎵

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 1d

Panopto automatic captions doing their thing again...

Balfron Tower, Tower Hamlets, London
designed by Ernst Goldfinger, built by the LCC
1965

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So, um, but that's at least why he looks a lot like Beyonce coming out

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 1d

I seem to be the only person who misses Colindale

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 1d

I'm planning to look at this in the NALGO archives at Warwick.
Trade union officials are the masters of pedantry. Always have at least one "I think you'll find" person on your branch committee

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 1d

Waves at Lambeth Archives if you want to read the local press (not digitised, in the filing cabinets on MF).

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 1d

Yes! Thanks for sharing

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 1d

Set reading. An interesting thing to see how the debate has shifted since Hanley (2007)

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 1d

Brilliant. That sounds like a good parallel.

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 1d

Watching this brill documentary

The Great Estate: The Rise & Fall of the Council House

Tuesday, 22 May 2012, 00:50

60 mins

Synopsis

Journalist and author Michael Collins presents a history of one of Britain's greatest social revolutions - council housing, which, at its hel
1970s, provided homes for over a third of the British population, Collins visits Britain's first council estate in London, the groundbreakir
that made inter-war Liverpool the envy of Europe, the high rise estate in Sheffield that has become the largest listed building in the wor
estate on the banks of the Thames that was billed as 'the town of the 21st century', He meets the people whose lives were shaped by ar
extraordinary social experiment that began with a bang at the start of the 20th century and ended with a whimper 80 years late

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 1d

I've got some good examples from the anti-poll tax movement. My main argument is that it was so successful because there was so much collective administrative resistance on both sides of the council desk.

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 1d

I am thinking of my next project being about the history of administrative and pedantic modes of protest. This type is top tier.

Mark Nixon @fatbadger442.bsky.social · 1d

A classic, easy-to-do and legal piece of resistance. Animal rights activists and others have used it for years.

Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 1d

via Anthony Corella

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Mark Nixon @fatbadger442.bsky.social · 1d

A classic, easy-to-do and legal piece of resistance. Animal rights activists and others have used it for years.

Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 1d

via Anthony Corella

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 1d

The Olympic stadium in Helsinki was great though

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 1d

I also went to the rock church in Helsinki but it wasn't my favourite

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 1d

Concrete churches of the year so far. Looking forward to seeing more in Milan this weekend.
1. Notre Dame du Raincy, outskirts of Paris
2. Santuário de Nossa Senhora da Piedade, Loulé, Portugal

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 1d

Final Student New Town Development Corporation meeting today before the break. Today a tower block has tragically collapsed, and the Corporation will be considering the implications of Right to Buy.

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Matt Houlbrook @tricksterprince.bsky.social · 1d

Huge thanks to @luketurner.bsky.social for the generous, thoughtful, pointed review of Songs of Seven Dials in @theobserveruk.bsky.social. That was worth a wet walk to the shops for.

observer.co.uk/culture/book...

Lament for a lost London | The Observer

observer.co.uk

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 2d

I thought I would see how long it takes a card to reach you.

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 2d

Yes I can see there are 4 trains at that time but I'd rather not have the hassle of worrying if I could get on them, and also ot feels against the spirit of a general strike to use them