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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 6h

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

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 7h

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 7h

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 · 7h

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

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 7h

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 · 11h

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 · 14h

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

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 14h

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 · 14h

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 · 14h

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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Contemporary British History seminar @cont-brit-hist.bsky.social · 17h

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 · 19h

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 · 19h

Yes 304

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Cluster Block🌈 🍉 @clusterblock.bsky.social · 19h

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 · 20h

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 · 20h

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

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 20h

Thanks to the lovely attendees at the Contemporary British History Seminar last night.

Apologies my paper was a little incoherent because of a combination of unavoidable factors, including the IHR laptop deciding to auto-update 15 mins in, and a migraine slowly descending on me so I got aphasia

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 1d

If you're into Claudia's clothes, her stylist puts photos and info on her insta www.instagram.com/p/DPkB-mFDZJ...

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 1d

Very much enjoyed the heightened hamminess of the setting, the first task and of Claudia #TheTraitors

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 1d

Mine were coming in from outside along the gas pipe, so any pipes coming into the house is where I'd start.

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 1d

Actual advice if you are asking for it:
Plug any holes you can find with wire wool. Put a sprinkling of flour around where you suspect they are coming in and out (usually near pipes) so you can see their tracks.
Then call pest control.

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Jo (unfunded hobbyist) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote something on my time on returning to Goldsmiths as an associate lecturer, 17 years after graduating with my first degree. It’s a plea to Frances Corner’s successor to learn from mistakes made over the last 6 years and change course. #UCU #UKHE

ucucommons.org/2025/10/06/c...

Cutting Corners: a message to the next Vice Chancellor at Goldsmiths

On 1 October 2025, a short announcement was put on Goldsmiths’ website to say that Vice Chancellor Frances Corner was stepping down with immediate effect. This came off the back of an announcement …

ucucommons.org

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 1d

All I think about when reading this is how many jobs the money spent on that pile of brick and glass could have saved in smaller humanities departments - my own colleagues. It’s like building a monument of gold in a landscape of wrack and ruin.

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 1d

'The gleaming palace to the humanities – the single largest building project ever undertaken by the University of Oxford made possible by the largest philanthropic gift it has ever received – stands in stark contrast to the beleaguered, shrinking state of the rest of the sector.'

Oxford’s largest-ever project ‘shows what the humanities can do’

New building which brings together disciplines for the first time will also open its doors to the public to engage with big questions facing the world

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 1d

Contrasting headlines

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 1d

'The gleaming palace to the humanities – the single largest building project ever undertaken by the University of Oxford made possible by the largest philanthropic gift it has ever received – stands in stark contrast to the beleaguered, shrinking state of the rest of the sector.'

Oxford’s largest-ever project ‘shows what the humanities can do’

New building which brings together disciplines for the first time will also open its doors to the public to engage with big questions facing the world

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 2d

Mid afternoon both ways

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 2d

Yep it's still there

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 2d

Advance returns to Manc for me are c.£90. Anything north of Manc/Leeds seems to be £££

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 2d

The first time I visited Newcastle I came across the 24 hour Greggs and it all made sense

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 2d

And I have to stump up in advance and reclaim the cost later through paperwork...

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 2d

I'm normally good at finding cheaper rail tickets but booking midweek off peak advance tickets to and from Newcastle has defeated me. £177. Ooof.

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