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Overview
I am Professor of History and director of the University's Heritage Hub.
My research focuses on 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 modernism, planning, and landscape change, GIS and the digital humanities.
Publications:
- 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).
My third monograph, Contested Commons: Protest and Public Space in England, is under contract with Reaktion Books.
My most recent publications are '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:
- 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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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) -
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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Building Amenity in Areas of Non-outstanding Natural Beauty in the Southern Pennines
Navickas, K., 8 Jun 2023, New Lives, New Landscapes Revisited: Rural Modernity in Britain: Proceedings of the British Academy. Ross, L., Navickas, K., Kelly, M. & Anderson, B. (eds.). Oxford University Press (OUP), p. 92-114 (British Academy Publications).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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