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
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UCU Herts branch secretary
@ruralmodernism on Insta.
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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 14d

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

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 9h

Oof

wendy copium @alicebennett.bsky.social · 9h

my former employer immediately taking down all the webpages for colleagues they made redundant so all that’s left is this nauseating twee crap

a 404 error page with a cutesy illustration of a crying window being lifted up by a crane

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wendy copium @alicebennett.bsky.social · 9h

my former employer immediately taking down all the webpages for colleagues they made redundant so all that’s left is this nauseating twee crap

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 11h

Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy

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Radical Poster Collective @radicalposters.bsky.social · 14h

A new book about Sheffield based revolutionary Samuel Holberry was published a couple of weeks ago. Holberry, frustrated by the failure of Chartism, took part in organising an uprising in Sheffield. He died in appalling conditions in prison. Book is getting great reviews - here's the press release:

Press release advertising the publication of a new book: Samuel Holberry - Revolutionary Democrat 1814 - 1842, by John Baxter and Steven Kay. Holberry was imprisoned for his part in organising an uprising in Sheffield, where the appalling conditions imposed by the state killed him. Contact 1889books@gmail.com for more information.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 20h

How aware is/are your MP(s) of what your local universities deliver beyond taught programmes? Little in political debate or media suggests that their understanding is high. Perhaps it's time to add tutorials with worked examples to the mix, before it's too late. ICSs offer easy starting points. 8/8

Image of 2 people looking at an i-pad, a man on the left and a woman on the right, both seated and concentrating on the screen. More concentrating on the screen (with the data) would be a fine thing in this context!

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 20h

What's lost when we lose staff, departments, programmes and faculties in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and what's that got to do with organ donation?

Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8

The organ donation ‘opt-out’ has been a fatal failure | The Observer

observer.co.uk

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 21h

Haha

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 21h

"Ouigoser = to ensh*ttify (col.)"

The Man in Seat 61 @seatsixtyone.bsky.social · 21h

1/3: Now SNCF is sabotaging its own service.
The 12:11 Paris-Hendaye has been Ouigoisée, no catering, no 1st class, baggage fees.
As a result, I've had to delete the 08:32 London-San Sebastian. Now just 1 London-San Sebastian daytime service.😢

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 21h

Happy 50th anniversary to a classic album

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The Man in Seat 61 @seatsixtyone.bsky.social · 21h

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Jenny Pickerill @jennypickerill.bsky.social · 22h

SAVE GEOGRAPHY at Leicester University (UK) - We call on the University of Leicester to urgently reconsider the proposal to dissolve Geography. This is direct attack on the discipline of Geography at Leicester with likely loss of Geography staff. Please sign + share

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Sign the Petition

Save Geography at the University of Leicester

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 22h

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 23h

I try my hardest to stop buying books but sometimes it is just too difficult.

A Folio Edition of the memoir Pigs I Have Known

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 23h

I try my hardest to stop buying books but sometimes it is just too difficult.

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Ariadne Griffin @ariadnereviews.bsky.social · 1d

all if forgiven, this show is perfect. #GameOfWool

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 1d

4. commission Chris Broad to do a Japan travelogue, with the same high production values as his Journey Across Japan YouTube series
5. A proper historical documentary series about the English Civil War, presented by an actual early modernist

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 1d

This is what we cover in the New Towns module. All the oral histories of the first residents of Stevenage, Harlow etc, mention bathrooms and heating.

Ed Boooooo-mila @edburmila.bsky.social · 1d

When concrete tower block housing went up en masse after World War II, most people were fucking ecstatic to move into them because they had the holy trinity of novelties people rarely had in 1950: indoor toilets, hot water, and electricity.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 1d

Just absolutely classic BBC. You've just broadcast the most successful programme of the year, uniting Gen Z kids online and Boomers on broadcast in a return to appointment television. And instead of celebrating, your DG reigns due to a made-up right-wing scandal.

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Ariadne Griffin @ariadnereviews.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like you should maybe stop gleefully advertising you haven't even give them even half the necessary time needed????? #GameOfWool

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SABRE Maps @maps.sabre-roads.org.uk · 1d

Keep your eyes on SABRE Maps tomorrow - following the Ringways Map publication, we'll be publishing another huge set of plans for a different major city in Great Britain so that you can compare them clearly against our huge map collection. Any ideas as to which city it will be?

Planning #map extract of an unbuilt motorway to motorway junction just outside a major city in Great Britain

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 1d

*woogie

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 1d

Putting my hat in the ring for the BBC Director General job.
Key pledges:
1. No more barefoot contempo waft on Strictly
2. A weekly new music show that has no threat of Jools playing boogie boogie piano
3. Open University programmes and arty French films to be shown during the night.

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 1d

Yep that's also on the week's playlist. Not entirely sure why it portrays Abercrombie naked...

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Ed Boooooo-mila @edburmila.bsky.social · 1d

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 1d

*picks, even

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 1d

@reaktionbooks.bsky.social

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks to @rhodri.biz for featuring my book in his pics for the FT Holiday Gift Guide. Very honoured.

If the Jaws pinball machine is out of your price range, do consider my reasonably priced hardback.
www.ft.com/content/29d4...

15 gadgets for tech heads – who love Jaws and juicing

HTSI’s in-house ‘nerd’ has got some smart ideas

www.ft.com

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 1d

15 gadgets for tech heads – who love Jaws and juicing

HTSI’s in-house ‘nerd’ has got some smart ideas

www.ft.com

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 1d

I prefer covers that don't sound too much like the original. So Robert Plant's covers of Low work, while this one, by White Magic for Lovers, doesn't.

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 1d

I was liking this cover until the saxophone solo came in.
#bbc6music

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 1d

30 million dead, The Somme, painting created by Mary Bishop 1976 in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital where she was compelled to live.
Aged 4 when her father was killed in WWI, the reverberations of his death & her mother’s vast grief traumatised & distressed Mary for the rest of her life

A painting of diagonal slashes and crosses of various kinds all filling the white page in red paint of varying intensity. In tiny scratching handwriting the words 30 million dead July 76 M Bishop The Somme

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 1d

Tomorrow we're doing leisure centres and shopping plazas. Will they pedestranise the high street?
The key source is, of course
youtu.be/EoHVO1eSMFc?...

Telly Savalas Looks at Birmingham

YouTube video by seacaptainjoe

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