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
Croydon/Rochdale
UCU Herts branch secretary
@ruralmodernism on Insta.
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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 29d

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

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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 18h

"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.

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 19h

But I'm more like

a man in a white jacket and white shirt stands in front of a brick building

ALT: a man in a white jacket and white shirt stands in front of a brick building

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 19h

I could have been like...

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 1d

This 2022 BBC4 documentary on the New Cross tragedy and Brixton riots seems good

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 1d

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.

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 1d

Great to be in a league table with the big players at last, next to LSE. Oh wait...

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 1d

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 · 2d

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 2d

*Christmas

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 2d

Hahahaha

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 2d

Really bemused that Taylor Swift has apparently filmed a Chistmas video in the Whitgift centre.
Surely she could find an abandoned mall to hire in the US?

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Mark Williams @mrfw17thc.bsky.social · 2d

Nope.

'This book has really shaped the field!'

'... and how much is that field worth?'

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 2d

Love that Iggy is featuring Steve Reich compositions on his show given that the last two gigs I've been to have been These New Puritans and Tortoise.

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 2d

Just remembered I left a mini Molton Mowbray in the Humanities squatted office after the open day yesterday as I didn't want to take my lunchbox to the gig. Snack tomorrow!

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 2d

I could have watched Tortoise perform this track for the entire gig last night
www.instagram.com/reel/DRZH63H...

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 2d

This is a pattern that pervades the post REF2021 era. See also for example Kent, or at UoA level History, where the top 4 performing UoAs have all faced significant redundancies after their high results.

What does the White Paper (and DSIT/UKRI) mean by advocating 'specialism' in this context? 2/2

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 2d

Haha

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 2d

The phrase in this house for "hasn't this been done several times before?" is "Monty plants a bulb lasagne".

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 3d

Tortoise.

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 3d

Second time in a fortnight we have seen a band playing xylophone and marimba.

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 3d

Jazz

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 3d

Lovely.

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 3d

Most of the audience look like they've been to at least one ATP where they saw them play (including us).

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 3d

One man down apparently.

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 3d

Off to see Tortoise at the Barbican

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Emma Kennedy @emmakeddev.bsky.social · 3d

I'm getting some colleagues saying they refuse to vote in the UCU ballot for industrial action as the union hasn't helped them. Well, it's your life and if you don't want us to take action that's your right. But only do that if you genuinely want the union to do less!