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 · Oct 27

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 · 17h

I don't know you, but sending you strength and peace. What lovely memories.

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks Mark!

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Mark Crail @markcrail.bsky.social · 1d

Pick of the Christmas books. Looking forward to reading @katrinanavickas.bsky.social Contested Commons.

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 1d

Merry Christmas to all bands, promoters, venues and festivals we've seen this year. Especially @babayagashut.bsky.social @supersonicfest.bsky.social @musicvenuetrust.bsky.social
Looking forward to another great year of gigs and live music.

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 1d

And you will know us by the trail of Tiny Tim, who is not dead

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 1d

Even though this isn't #DuvetKnowItsChristmas it feels very much in the same spirit

Aye @chazzersmurf.bsky.social · 1d

Terrifying 40 year old electric knife at the mother in law's. Yes I'm carving. Pray for me

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 1d

The formica stool of chastity returns! #DuvetKnowItsChristmas

The Maths Bazaar @themathsbazaar.bsky.social · 1d

#DuvetKnowItsChristmas 2025

The Peach Room of Doom awaits, with a bonus clothes dryer, his and hers towels, and after 24 years of marriage the Formica Stool of Chastity guarantees a hankypanky-free night

Donate to @centrepointuk.bsky.social at www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know... h/t to @rhodri.biz

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The Maths Bazaar @themathsbazaar.bsky.social · 1d

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 1d

Unbelievably, #DuvetKnowItsChristmas generates such good will on social media that over the years we've raised somewhere approaching a quarter of a million quid for homeless charities. If you can spare a bob or two, sling some to Centrepoint, and here's the link: www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...

Donate to Duvet Know It's Christmas, 2025, organized by Rhodri Marsden

Unbelievably, it's the 15th year of this thing. What is it? Improbably, the nig… Rhodri Marsden needs your support for Duvet Know It's Christmas, 2025

www.gofundme.com

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 1d

This is the 15th year of #DuvetKnowItsChristmas, which is preposterous. Rules: if you find yourself dealing with unusual / claustrophobic / gaudy sleeping arrangements this Christmas Eve, share a picture with the world. Use the hashtag (with capitalisation) and cc me if you can be bothered.

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 1d

A fatal chintz overdose,
Colours that clash,
Precarious wall plates that threaten to smash
But without all these things, Yuletide isn’t the same
Your old bedspread shouldn’t inspire such shame...
#DuvetKnowItsChristmas? Of course we do, right?
Happy Christmas to all, and to all a goodnight.

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 1d

A spare room decked out like a bone china plate
A disgruntled cat as your brand new room-mate
A bulb with no shade from the ceiling does hang
In a bleak-looking prison of lemon meringue

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 1d

For adults who’ve been good: a Spiderman car!
And for those who have not, an old synth and guitar
This story of Christmastime rarely gets told,
Of freezing conservatories, bitterly cold
But that's how the Wheel of Fortune does spin
When there’s only *just enough* room at the inn

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 1d

This room’s called “the office” (though I’m not sure why)
With hundreds of jigsaws piled up to the sky
Fitness equipment, not used any more,
Treadmills, cross trainers, punchbags galore

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 1d

Dear husband and wife, you may now rest your heads
On two very separate single twin beds
Will the world’s thinnest mattress be laid out for me?
Or the heftiest sofa you ever did see?

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 1d

A living room crammed with all manner of junk
A rickety ladder leads up to a bunk
And soon we’ll be peacefully snoring away
Under duvets sent straight from Guantanamo Bay

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 1d

Twas the night before Christmas, and throughout the land
The sleeping arrangements were carefully planned
Down in the kitchen, a picturesque scene
A mattress, a pillow, a washing machine

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Aye @chazzersmurf.bsky.social · 1d

Terrifying 40 year old electric knife at the mother in law's. Yes I'm carving. Pray for me

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 1d

Beyond the brow of the hill is west Yorkshire, and we don't want that

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 1d

Freezin a'th' Lake and yet there are still folks sat outside the pub

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 2d

A very late entry for @remembrancewatch.bsky.social

Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 2d

With the proliferation of these Norsefire clip-art torture benches in my home town, you'd think we'd had two more World War Ones since 2016.

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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 2d

With the proliferation of these Norsefire clip-art torture benches in my home town, you'd think we'd had two more World War Ones since 2016.

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 2d

Lots of love to you Kay

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 2d

The best humour contains all the dramatic muses, especially pathos.
"Comedy is playful pain."

Break @ Jollymoding @breakfield01.bsky.social · 2d

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Break @ Jollymoding @breakfield01.bsky.social · 2d

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 2d

Tomorrow evening it’ll be my annual duty to vaguely shepherd the activity on the #duvetknowitschristmas hashtag and urge people to give small sums to charity. 7.30pm? Something like that?