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Katrina Navickas

@katrinanavickas.bsky.social

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Historian of protest, political movements and public space. Preorder my new book, Contested Commons: https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/contested-commons Croydon/Rochdale UCU Herts branch secretary @ruralmodernism on Insta. 🇱🇹🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ ally. She/her .. more

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 1d

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 1d

The show was very funny.

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 1d

It's this one opposite
themodernhouse.com/sales-list/l...

For Sale: London Fields West, London E8 | The Modern House

Designed by the brilliant architectural practice, Chance de Silva, this exceptional two-bedroom house lies on the corner of London Fields. Attentively designed inside and out, the home has a courtyard...

themodernhouse.com

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 1d

At the Australian comedians' W@nkernomics show. It is very close to the bone. Interval slide.

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 1d

It is a lovely warm afternoon and I wanted to go to the lido, but I have a migraine so am sitting in a dark Victorian theatre instead

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 1d

In Hackney

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Dan Douglas @dandouglas.bsky.social · 1d

ah fuck i’m going to have to put him in Duke Smoochem. maybe he could make a few appearances, clutching his gradually depleting sack of Haribo at a Toby Carvery and then in hospital

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 1d

'prime minister Keir Starmer...confirmed that the University of Lancaster and the University of Surrey had been given approval to open new campuses in India while on a trade mission to Mumbai, joining six more institutions already in the country.' (Lancaster is mooting 20% academic redundancy) 1/3

Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 2d

Expansion of UK universities in India ‘like California gold rush’.

University leaders embrace transnational education but warn it will not be a “replacement income stream”.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

Expansion of UK universities in India ‘like California gold rush’ - Research Professional News

University leaders embrace transnational education but warn it will not be a “replacement income stream”

www.researchprofessionalnews.com

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 2d

Watching last week's Later. I really like Robert Plant's cover of Low's Everybody's Song. It works really well, without distracting from the pure beauty of the original.

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 2d

Ie no

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 2d

They're not stocking the book until March and said maybe possibly.

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 2d

"Visualised podcast" is such an annoying term

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 2d

I'm still struggling somewhat with trying to book anywhere for a book launch. Any ideas?

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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 2d

Our Ron Mael of #Sparks Baker's Dozen is now accompanied by a curated playlist of essential tracks that define the band's career

Join the Quietus Subscriber Plus tier for access (to this plus many more perks)

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Sparks - Kimono My House album cover. Two women wearing komonos. One is winking and fanning her face, the other looks shocked and is holding both hands to her face.

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Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan @warringtonruncorn.com · 3d

And we are go! warrington-runcorn-cis.bandcamp.com/album/public...

Public Works and Utilities, by Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan

6 track album

warrington-runcorn-cis.bandcamp.com

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 3d

Please ##TheTraitors producers switch that "historical" portrait, just for one week

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 3d

*not
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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 3d

I wish Natacha Demetriou was on #TheTraitors, especially in this funeral scene, as Nadja to out goth Claudia

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AAAAH-riadne Griffin @ariadnereviews.bsky.social · 3d

I will only accept this as the line-up of pallbearers at my funeral #CelebrityTraitors

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 3d

The dynamic of Celebrity #TheTraitors is different because some of them already know each other

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 3d

in the meantime, here's our last episode with @katrinanavickas.bsky.social - titled raves, riots, and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. partly because it's alliterative. partly because we did talk about all those things. sometimes it really do be like that

merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...

Absolute Units - The Museum of English Rural Life podcast

Come for the big animals. Stay for fascinating and surprising stories about England's rural past, as told by our collections.

merl.reading.ac.uk

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 3d

There's that meme going round about how converts are ultra trad, while cradle Catholics' principles boil down to "maybe we should give some money to the poor".
Catholicism in later 20thC Greater Manchester was and still is more of a cultural, familial, immigrant-inflected identity

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 3d

I was taught by urban mid century Vatican II social justice Catholics, and that still underpins much of my beliefs and principles.
At ordinary parish level, boring suburban family centred parishes, the Justice & Peace ethos is still strong, thankfully.

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 3d

My dad's family were conservative Republicans (including my immigrant grandfather). But all three kids from that family—raised in that midcentury urban Catholic environment—are all pretty far left of center, which they consider to be inextricably linked to their Catholic values.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 3d

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Contemporary British History seminar @cont-brit-hist.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you to @katrinanavickas.bsky.social for a brilliant start to our seminar series last night!

Next session is 22 Oct, 5.30pm UK time, online/in-person when @dohertyta.bsky.social will speak on The Fragility of Feminist Futures in Digital Collections.

Sign up: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

The Fragility of Feminist Futures in Digital Collections

www.history.ac.uk

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 3d

We have just come down from the top of the post office tower. It was very exciting being 499 feet up. The cars and buildings looked like dinky toys.

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 3d

Yes 304

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Cluster Block🌈 🍉 @clusterblock.bsky.social · 3d

Everyone in the country has caught the Grey Plague, gripped with a fever to extinguish every hint of colour from the world.

It’s like a social contagion.

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 3d

It is work in progress and I need to do more work on tenants' association activism and Lambeth politics in the 1980s.

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks so much for the invite. It was great to meet you, and to speak with some really interesting people.
I enjoyed Michael's tales of working at Harlow and Dinorwig