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Katrina Navickas
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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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UCU Herts branch secretary
@ruralmodernism on Insta.
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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
Contested Commons 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

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 3h
A colleague of mine is about to do a Sociology study based on one of the North London bus routes, part of which involves sitting on the bus for 3 weeks. Great idea.

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 4h
New publication by Grace Simpson, who is fab
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Advance About Us Subjects Browse Products Request a trial Librarian Resources Wha Home > Humanities > History > Social & Cultural History Embodied Labour > Brutally forcing them to work safely Chapter Brutally forcing them to work safely EMBODIED LABOUR A vignette of occupational health and safety at a Polish hard coal mine in the 1960s ƏR By Grace Simpson Book Embodied Labour Edition 1 st Edition First Published 2025 Imprint Routledge Share Pages ABSTRACT

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 6h
He is basically their Nicholas Witchell. Pops up to do obituaries (he got called in to waffle on for 5 minutes in a solemn tone about Mani the other day)

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 7h
I am half Lithuanian half English too.

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 7h
I grew up round the corner from there. My grandad often used to be on the bus with her from the same stop.

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 8h
It was a concept somewhat alien to them now, thankfully. They all got the legacy of persistent racism though.

Reposted by Holger Nehring

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 8h
I was teaching the history of racial discrimination in housing in Britain 1958-1981 to my wonderful cohort of 3rd year undergraduates.
I showed them an example of the "no Irish, no Blacks, no Dogs" sign, and got the genuine question of why anti- Irish sentiment existed in 20thC Britain.
dankaszeta.bsky.social Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 8h
Lots of British racists don’t really consider Eastern Europeans to be white. If you go back a ways in UK history you get people considering Irish as not quite white

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 8h
Lots of British racists don’t really consider Eastern Europeans to be white. If you go back a ways in UK history you get people considering Irish as not quite white

Reposted by Lesley A. Hall, Aileen McHarg, Andrew Livingstone

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 10h
I'm in conversation with Timothy Garton Ash in the new issue of BBC History magazine and podcast.
We're discussing the history of policing protest and public order legislation.
Timothy Garton Ash and Katrina Navickas

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 11h
With a lot of my feed posting about the MBV gig at Wembley I've realised that 6music doesn't have any real music news. It's not been mentioned at all, on a station with a core audience for those sort of "legacy" acts, as Lou Barlow put it last night.

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 11h
And no, he wasn't at all jealous that J. Mascis opened for MBV at Wembley the night before.

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 11h
It was frustrating there was no interval in a 2 1/2 set. I'm sure everyone in the audience needed a good sit down.

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 20h
He also enjoys "holiday season in England because you get to hear Slade's "Merry Christmas", which is a great song you never hear back in the US."

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 20h
Lou was very amusingly self deprecating. "There's nothing better than a legacy act doing their new material."
Lou barlow

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 20h
Everyone there must have sore calves. Somewhat of a challenge for 50 year olds to stand for that long without a break.

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 20h
Over 2 and a half hours of non stop anecdotes, ramblings, tunes and "the hits". An evening with Lou Barlow.
Lou barlow

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 1d
Off to An Evening with Lou Barlow at the ICA.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 1d
Chief exec of OfS 'said the OfS believes there are 24 institutions at risk of exiting the market in the next 12 months, seven of which are large providers with more than 3,000 students. There are another 25 or so institutions of various sizes at risk over a two- to three-year period, she added.'
Seven ‘large providers’ at risk of going under in the next year
Skills minister says no higher education institutions are at imminent risk of collapse this year but OfS confirms more than 20 providers are being closely monitored
www.timeshighereducation.com

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Ian Waites @ianwaites.bsky.social · 1d
My new book, all about how, in the 1970s and 80s, the good architects and planners of the Peterborough Development Corporation tried to create pedestrian-friendly places to live. Available here: theradburnidea.bigcartel.com/product/the-...

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Mark Crail @markcrail.bsky.social · 1d
Chartist Lives - the paperback
#Chartism #C19th #BritishHistory 🗃️
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G3Q7PR7Y

Reposted by Martin Paul Eve, David Bartram, Katrina Navickas

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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 2d
"A system built on specialisation, efficiency", that right there is the death knell for the current university system in the UK, if (big if) government pushes it through. They actively don't want HE to grow, they will intervene, apparently, to help it shrink.

per this morning's education committee.

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 2d
But I'm more like
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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 2d
I could have been like...
Lou barlow

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 3d
This 2022 BBC4 documentary on the New Cross tragedy and Brixton riots seems good
Uprising the front line

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 3d
Today the Student New Town Development Corporation are facing the issue of race riots in their Town. Soundtrack is Ghost Town by the Specials and English Black Boys by X-O-Dus

Reposted by Katrina Navickas

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 3d
Don't know if you'd be interested in a bit of work on Saturday 1st July, they're booking people to roam around in wild animal costumes uptown.

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 3d
Great to be in a league table with the big players at last, next to LSE. Oh wait...
sundersays.bsky.social Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 3d
These are HEPI estimates of the 20 institutions affected: I think this illustrates the impact if the tariff is absorbed in full by institutions.

What share of the 6% tariff different universities may try to pass on to fees - or the impact might be on demand if they did - is not publicly known.

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 3d
New publishing opportunity!

The London Record Society are looking for someone to edit a volume based on the archive of the Working Ladies' Guild, which supported impoverished women in late nineteenth-century Britain.

Further information and contact details in the text below.
A call for editors for a new edited volume on the Working Ladies Guild. The volume is expected to focus on the late-Victorian period, with the case-histories of women based in London who approached the Guild for relief providing the bulk of the material. The records of the Guild’s Chelsea group, covering the period 1884 to 1897, will provide the core of the material to be transcribed and edited. Readers who are interested in potentially taking on this task should contact Dr Anne Summers (chair@friendsofthewomenslibrary.org.uk) or Prof Jerry White, Honorary General Editor (Modern Records) of the LRS (jerry.white@bbk.ac.uk) to discuss the project further.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 3d
These are HEPI estimates of the 20 institutions affected: I think this illustrates the impact if the tariff is absorbed in full by institutions.

What share of the 6% tariff different universities may try to pass on to fees - or the impact might be on demand if they did - is not publicly known.

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 3d
*Christmas