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Overview
I am Professor of History and director of the University's Heritage Hub.
I research the history of protest, social and political movements and contested public spaces in England from the late 18th century to the present day. I also have research interests in 20th century modernist architecture, town and country planning, and landscape change.
Publications:
- Contested Commons: a History of Protest and Public Space in England, in press (Reaktion Books, 2025)
- New Lives, New Landscapes: Rural Modernity in Britain, ed. with Linda Ross, Matthew Kelly and Ben Anderson (OUP, Proceedings of the British Academy, 2023)
- Protest and the Politics of Space and Place, 1789-1848 (Manchester University Press, 2015)
- Loyalism and Radicalism in Lancashire, 1798-1815 (OUP, 2009).
Recent publications include 'Legal and historical geographies of the Greenham Common protest camps in the 1980s', Journal of Historical Geography, 2023, and 'Chartist studies and Malcolm Chase, a reappreciation', English Historical Review, 2023.
I held a fellowship at the Museum of English Rural Life Fellowship, sponsored by the Open Spaces Society in 2020-21, undertaking a project on their archive collections. https://historyofpublicspace.uk/my-oss-fellowship-at-merl-2021/ .
My Royal Historical Society lecture, 'The right of public meeting from the Bill of Rights to the Public Order Acts', 5 February 2021 is available online: https://royalhistsoc.org/virtual-lecture-5-february-2021/
I was awarded a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship 2018-19 for 'The history of public space in England, 1700-2000'. See the website: http://historyofpublicspace.uk/
Press:
- December 2024, BBC Radio 3 - Sunday Feature, 'Skid Row Messiah'
- July 2024, BBC Radio 4 - Policing Protest series
- October 2022, BBC Radio 4 - Analysis, What's the point of street protest?
- Dan Snow's History Hit podcast, 'The Enclosures', 2022: https://uk-podcasts.co.uk/podcast/dan-snow-s-history-hit/the-enclosures
- interview by Bill Bailey on BBC One Show, 1 March 2021, on the history of public footpaths: https://youtu.be/eOymGX0umls
I write for a range of publications, including The Modernist, books by the 20th Century Society and Open City London, Tribune, and History Today. I contributed an essay on the history of bins in Joe Lycett's book, Bins (Hurtwood Books, 2023)
Commercial and public engagement
I am the director of the university's Heritage Hub, connecting academics and heritage institutions
I am an editor of the UH Press book series Explorations in Local and Regional History
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Projects
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Planning Creativity: Participatory Heritage and Decision-Making
Navickas, K. (CoI)
1/02/20 → 31/10/21
Project: Research
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Decommissioning the 20th Century: Energy Landscapes, Heritage and Community
Navickas, K. (CoI)
1/01/20 → 30/06/21
Project: Research
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Mid-Career Fellowship Second Round (follow on from 677)
Navickas, K. (PI)
1/09/18 → 31/08/19
Project: Other
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Protest and the Politics of Space and Place, 1789-1848
Navickas, K., 1 Dec 2015, Manchester: Manchester University Press. 312 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
13 Citations (Scopus) -
Loyalism and Radicalism in Lancashire, 1798-1815
Navickas, K., 2009, Oxford: Oxford University Press (OUP). 288 p. (Oxford Historical Monographs)Research output: Book/Report › Book
25 Citations (Scopus) -
From Repertoires to Recipes: rethinking political organisation in the long nineteenth century
Navickas, K. & Huzzey, R., 13 Feb 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: Parliamentary History.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Chartist Studies and Malcolm Chase: a Re-appreciation
Navickas, K., 17 Nov 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: English Historical Review. p. 1-18 18 p., ceac165.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Legal and historical geographies of the Greenham Common protest camps in the 1980s
Navickas, K., 30 Oct 2023, In: Journal of Historical Geography. 82, p. 11-22 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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