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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 46m

"We are now arriving into Manchester, which has more canals than Venice* and is the home of Vimto."

* I thought that was Brum?

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 6h

Aargh. On another train and the train manager clearly thinks he's doing stand up.
"I shall say zis only once" "this train will be cruising at 4 feet and 125mph". "We will be arriving in Manchester where it's probably raining"

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 4h

This was also the main thing I realised years later.

Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 4h

I only realised later that the purpose of university for some, above all, was networking.

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 4h

I only realised later that the purpose of university for some, above all, was networking.

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 5h

🐏 New Absolute Units 🐏

Same-sex relationships have always been part of rural England, but they've been underrepresented in our collections.

In the first of 2 episodes, @timjerrome.bsky.social shares his work tracing queer rural lives in The MERL archives.

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

The Absolute Units art. Three giant sheep hover over the English countryside.

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 6h

The shop manager is in on the gags too. "Hello my little cupcakes, we have a meal deal"

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 6h

Aargh. On another train and the train manager clearly thinks he's doing stand up.
"I shall say zis only once" "this train will be cruising at 4 feet and 125mph". "We will be arriving in Manchester where it's probably raining"

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 6h

Aargh. On another train and the train manager clearly thinks he's doing stand up.
"I shall say zis only once" "this train will be cruising at 4 feet and 125mph". "We will be arriving in Manchester where it's probably raining"

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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 7h

It's on the website now, so: I'm Co-I on a new AHRC Curiosity Award, The Many Lives of Cardboard, with Antonia Thomas (Highlands and Islands) and Lucy Razzall (National Archives). Please consider this permission to send me any and all cardboard trivia gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref...

gtr.ukri.org

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Andrew Popp @andrewpopp.bsky.social · 8h

It was a real pleasure to read @lauracforster.bsky.social's fine new essay on "Befriending the Dead" in @historyworkshop.org.uk this morning. It contains deep wellsprings of optimism.
academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...

Befriending the Dead: History, Friendship, and Talking Across Time

Abstract. People in Britain are lonely; Britain is also one of the most age-segregated countries in the world. These realities create generational antagoni

academic.oup.com

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Horace V. Wigglesworth @wiggler.bsky.social · 14h

A fantastic introduction to this tradition, and it's relation to the Luddite uprising, can be found here in the London Review of Books by @katrinanavickas.bsky.social - absolutely essential reading in the age of AI.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Katrina Navickas · What’s Missing: Tawney, Polanyi, Thompson

www.lrb.co.uk

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 20h

How unsettling and futile.

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 21h

Yep. And going to Glasgow for my nights out.

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 21h

I forgot how many tourists there are in Edinburgh, everywhere. Mostly loud Americans. How did I cope when I lived and worked there?

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 21h

What actually had an impact on my experience was the hairs in the bath and the thermostat that didn't work.

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 21h

Funny how people get so offended by a small sticker on a door that has no impact on their experience

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4/5 2 months ago'on G Google Good for the old town and with Premier Inn youu know what you are going to get. Was disappointed to see the pride flag on the door and reference to Stonewall. All a bit woke. Never understand why businesses can't stick to the basics. I donft want them spending money on this rubbish, concentrate on giving me good quality at a good price please.
Trip type Vacation
Travel group Couple
Rooms; 5
Service: 5
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Rose Casey @rosecasey.bsky.social · 1d

Would I have had a better education at Oxford if the environment had not been so toxic? If I hadn't been exposed daily to horrific misogyny? Hadn't been constantly told, implicitly or otherwise, that of course I wasn't as bright because I was from a state school and the north? Without a doubt.

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 1d

Targeted ads on Insta

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks to the lovely people at Edinburgh for the great hospitality, incisive questions and discussion this evening. Plus the inside of the lecture theatre looked like I was about to perform in panto.

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Harry Wilkin$ @hs-wilkins.bsky.social · 1d

WELL THIS NEAT AND UNASSUMING LIBRARY IS RATHER ENJOYABLE ISN’T IT.

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Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 1d

I do not think non-members can respond, but the British Mountaineering Council (BMC) is running a survey on trans-inclusion at competition level. Feel free to email the BMC with your thoughts: [email protected].

And check out this excellent article: www.ukclimbing.com/articles/fea...

FEATURE: Trans Climbers Welcome

Following the publication of my writing exploring the relationship between climbing and autism, I found myself thinking towards a companion piece about experiencing climbing through the lens of...

www.ukclimbing.com

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 1d

Listen now to the Bureau of Lost Culture podcast episode with me, discussing commons and common rights
bureauoflostculture.podbean.com/e/who-owns-t...

Who Owns The Ground Beneath Our Feet? | Bureau of Lost Culture

We walk the streets every day — and through parks, across squares and pavements and along beaches, and mountains, over 'The Commons' — without much thought for who really owns them. These apparently p...

bureauoflostculture.podbean.com

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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 2d

It's Electric Wind publication day!💨

Join @dudleymarianna.bsky.social for the launch of her new book, online and at @bookhaus.bsky.social.

Details on the MUP Events page🎟️👇

A cutting-edge history of wind power in Britain from the industrial revolution to the present.

Electric Wind is out now💡

Promotional image for Electric wind. Purple background with an image of rolling hills and a blue sky, wind turbines dot the hills. Book cover sits in centre of image. Text reads: How has energy shaped a nation? Electric Wind Out Now.

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Vanessa is the name of the Doctor! @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 2d

struggling to budget both myself & a decent post-doc under the ukri grant caps (given the massive overheads unis charge) & wondering how others are managing. Then I see all the 0.4 fte for 15 months precarious post-docs being advertised & realise that’s the only way to do it. I hate it, thanks.

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Justin Colson @justincolson.bsky.social · 2d

At @ihr.bsky.social we can now offer PhD by Publication in History! For those with a substantial body of existing published research (within past 10 years), but without a PhD, should be of particular interest to #heritage professionals and independent scholars!

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 2d

On a long train journey and very tempted to eat my packed lunch now

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 2d

*released when

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 2d

After reading part of the Becontree tenants' handbook of rules and regulations, they concluded, "it's a bit like Hot Fuzz, where the town is bucolic English politeness but at night your neighbours could kill you", which is a pleasing reference to a film when most of them were 2 years old.

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 2d

Also, I have converted them to Meades. "Surreal" and "you don't see documentaries like that now" were among the feedback.

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 3d

Yes is the answer, but they also want Red Vienna's Karl Marx Hof building in the middle. Not sure how that will go down with the residents of Tudor Drive.

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 3d

Today the student New Town Development Corporation are considering interwar cottage estates and "homes for heroes". Will they want swathes of red brick semis with carefully tended front gardens? Case study today is Becontree.

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 3d

Looking forward to speaking at Edinburgh University School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture tomorrow
www.eca.ed.ac.uk/event/deline...

The Delineation of Public Space in 19th- and 20th-Century England: An Urban Commons and its Re-enclosure? | Edinburgh College of Art

www.eca.ed.ac.uk

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 3d

Brilliant project

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