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Katrina Navickas

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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 · 8h

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 · 13h

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

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 13h

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 · 18h

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 · 19h

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 · 20h

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 · 20h

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

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 1d

*released when

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 1d

Brilliant project

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 1d

Tag yourself

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 1d

I was going to answer this too. I also make a point of looking for "Millennium clock" or the "Millennium sculpture" when visiting suburban villages and small towns.
Bromley has "Millennium rocks"
londonist.com/london/great...

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 1d

I have various triggers but often my migraines just happen. Hope your head eases too.

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 1d

I also hope my migraine has gone as it was bad this weekend

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 3d

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 3d

The show was very funny.

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 3d

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...

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

In Hackney

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Dan Douglas @dandouglas.bsky.social · 3d

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 · 3d

'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 · 4d

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 · 4d

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 · 4d

Ie no

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 4d

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

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Peter Mandler @petermandler.bsky.social · 4d

Join us for a roundtable on 'The Modern British City' in January at Senate House, London, with Simon Gunn, Erika Hanna, Owen Hatherley, Peter Mandler, Otto Saumarez Smith and Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, followed by wine! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Roundtable: 'The Modern British City'

www.history.ac.uk

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