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DR KATRINA NAVICKAS
School of Humanities, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, AL10 9AB
01707 285624
k.navickas@herts.ac.uk
Historian of popular politics in 18th
and 19th
-century Britain.
Current activities:
 monograph Protest and the Politics of Space and Place, 1789-1848
(Manchester University Press, December 2015)
 one of the two winners of the British Library Labs competition 2015,
funded by the Andrew Mellon Foundation. June-November 2015 ‘in
residence’ in the Digital Scholarship department developing a digital
text-mining & mapping tool and web resource
 developing a space syntax digital mapping project with Dr Sam Griffiths
of UCL Space Syntax lab
 collaborating with colleagues in Creative Arts and the University of
Lincoln to organise a conference, ‘Utopias! Experiments in Perfection’
with Letchworth Garden Cities’ Institute
EMPLOYMENT:
University of Hertfordshire Senior Lecturer in History
Dec. 2012 - present
University of Hertfordshire Acting Head of History
Feb. 2014 – Aug. 2014
University of Hertfordshire Lecturer in History
Sept. 2009 – Dec. 2012
University of Edinburgh Lecturer in British History
Sept. 2006 – Aug. 2009
Bath Spa University Lecturer [0.5] in British History
Feb. 2006 – July 2006
Mansfield College, Oxford Departmental Lecturer [0.5] in British History
Oct. 2005 – July 2006
PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

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2015 joined editorial board of the International Journal of Regional and
Local History
2014 semester B – acting Head of History
management of 11 staff, sitting on Humanities programme board
committee and Dean of School advisory group, organising the
timetable and new modules for the next academic year, overseeing the
examination diet for BA History, and managing the recruitment process
of two new staff in liaison with HR and the Head of School. Also
involved in admissions for Clearing 2014.
2013 to present - School of Humanities Research Students’ Tutor
overseeing the supervision, welfare and administration of postgraduate
research students and their supervisors, dealing with appeals and
assessment arrangements, assessing ethics applications on the Ethics
Board.
2013 to present – Director of the Centre for Regional and Local History,
Relaunching the centre, attracting and supporting postgraduate
research students, developing outreach activities and events,
particularly in collaboration with the National Army Museum and
Hertfordshire Archives, setting up the new website and acting as joint
editor of Explorations in Regional and Local History series for UH
Press.
2012 to present - Reviews Editor for Social History journal
2012 elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
2011-15 - Communications Officer of the Social History Society
Responsible for liaising with other academic history societies,
maintaining and expanding the reach of the society website and social
media accounts, publishing the fortnightly bulletin, and co-ordinating
communication among the conference organisers
2010-11 - programme convenor of the annual conference of the Social
History Society, a major international conference of over 200 delegates at the
University of Manchester
POSTGRADUATE SUPERVISION:
 Nathan Bend, AHRC collaborative doctoral award with The National
Archives, ‘Popular radicalism, local government and the Home Office
disturbance papers, 1782-1832’

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 Karen Rothery, AHRC funded PhD in collaboration with Oxford
Brookes University, joint-supervision with Dr Alysa Levene, ‘Under new
management: the administration of the 1834 New Poor Law in
Hertfordshire’ (completion due 2016)
 Dianne Shepherd, PhD, part-time, ‘Female agency, politics and
community in later nineteenth-century East End of London’.
 David Noble, PhD, part-time, ‘The Primitive Methodists in nineteenth-
century Hertfordshire’.
 Joshua Edgcombe, MA by Research, ‘The 1919 Railwaymen’s strike in
Hertfordshire and the North East’
 Fabian Hiscock, MA by Research, ‘The impact of the Grand Junction
Canal on nineteenth-century Hertfordshire’
 Matt Benjamin, MA by Research, ‘Homes fit for heroes: from garden
cities to new towns in Hertfordshire and Essex in the early twentieth
century’.
Completed:
 Rudi Newman, PhD, ‘The socio-economic impacts of the coming of the
railways to Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire’,
supervision with Professor Nigel Goose, awarded February 2015.
 Helen Tyler, MA by Research, ‘Social Mobility and the British Schools
in Hertfordshire, 1881-1901’, November 2014.
Internal examiner for Paul Cowdell, ‘Belief in Ghosts in Modern Britain’, PhD
2011.
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4498-9231
Monograph:
Loyalism and Radicalism in Lancashire, 1798-1815 (Oxford University Press,
2009)
Forthcoming:
Protest and the Politics of Space and Place, 1789-1848 (Manchester
University Press, 1 December 2015)
Peer-reviewed journal articles:
1. ‘A reformer’s wife ought to be an heroine: gender, family and English
radicals imprisoned under the Suspension of Habeas Corpus Act of

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1817’, History (accepted with minor revisions, publication est. spring
2016)
2. ‘Lancashire Britishness: patriotism in the Manchester region during the
Napoleonic Wars’, Manchester Region History Review, 23 (2012/14,
special edition, Return to Peterloo, edited by Robert Poole).
3. ‘Protest History or the History of Protest?’ History Workshop Journal,
73 (Spring 2012)
4. ‘What Happened to Class? New Histories of Labour and Collective
Action in Britain’, Social History, 36: 2 (May 2011)
5. ‘Captain Swing in the North: the Carlisle Riots of 1830’, History
Workshop Journal, 71 (Spring 2011)
6. ‘Luddism, Incendiarism, and the Defence of ‘Task–Scapes’ in 1812’,
invited paper for Northern History, 48: 1 (March 2011)
7. ‘“That Sash Will Hang You”: Political Clothing and Adornment in
England, 1780–1840’, Journal of British Studies, 47: 3 (2010)
8. ‘Moors and Fields in Popular Protest in South Lancashire and the West
Riding, 1800–1848’, Northern History, 46: 1 (2009)
9. ‘The Search for “General Ludd”: the Mythology of Luddism’, Social
History, 30: 3 (2005)
10.‘The Cragg Family Memorandum Book: Society, Politics and Religion
in North Lancashire During the 1790s’, Northern History, 42: 1 (2005)
Book chapters:
11.‘A return to materialism? New directions in the history of socio-
economic structures’, commissioned chapter for Rohan McWilliam,
Lucy Noakes and Sasha Handley, eds., New Directions in Social and
Cultural History (Social History Society series, Bloomsbury,
forthcoming)
12.‘Thirdspace?: historians and the spatial turn, with a case study of
political graffiti in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century
England’, in Sam Griffiths and Alexander von Lunen, eds., Spatial
Cultures: Towards a New Morphology of Cities Past and Present
(Ashgate, forthcoming 2016)
13.‘The Spirit of Loyalty: material culture, space and the construction of an
English loyalist memory, 1790-1840’, in Allan Blackstock and Frank
O’Gorman, eds, Loyalism and the Formation of the British World, c.
1780-1914 (Boydell & Brewer, 2014)
14.‘Searching for the radical dialect voice in Northern England, 1798–
1819’, in Michael Brown, John Kirk, and Andrew Noble, eds., United

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Islands? The Language of Resistance: Multi-Lingual Radical Poetry
and Song in Britain and Ireland, 1770–1820 (Pickering & Chatto, 2012)
15.‘The defence of Manchester and Liverpool in 1803’, in Mark Philp, ed.,
Resisting Napoleon: the British Response to the Threat of Invasion,
1797–1815 (Ashgate, 2006)
Edited primary sources:
 Jacobites and Jacobins, Two Eighteenth-Century Perspectives, ed.
with Jonathan Oates (Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire,
2006)
 Selected essays in Mark Philp and Alexandra Franklin, Napoleon and
the Invasion of Britain (Bodleian Library exhibition catalogue, 2003)
FUNDING:
2015 – one of the two winners of the British Library Labs competition, to
design a digital tool and website ‘Political Meetings Mapper’ to text-mine and
geo-code data from the digitised newspaper collections and historic maps to
produce a database and website of Chartist meetings (funding in kind, with
final award of £2000) http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-
scholarship/2015/06/bl-labs-competition-winners-for-2015.html
2014 – AHRC Thames Consortium Collaborative Doctoral Partnership
with The National Archives – 3 year fully funded PhD studentship (c.£55,000)
to work on the Home Office disturbance papers, 1782-1832.
2013 – British Academy/Leverhulme small research grant – co-
investigator with Dr Robert Poole, UCLAN, for a pilot project to re-catalogue,
transcribe and digitise the Home Office disturbance papers 1816-17 at The
National Archives, Kew - £9056
2013 – applied for major AHRC research grant as PI to work with Historypin to
conduct community co-production with several local history groups, including
Hertfordshire Archives, the British Schools’ Museum, Hitchin, and Smallford
railway society. Although unsuccessful, the proposal was given an A rating.
2012 – Economic History Society conferences and initiatives fund for two
workshops at Universities of the West of England and Gloucestershire,
‘Protest, Memory and Public History’ - £1150. I am the founder and co-
ordinator of the ‘Protest History network’ based around these workshops.

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2010 – History Workshop Journal grant for a colloquium at the University of
Hertfordshire, ‘New approaches to the history of protest in Britain and Ireland,
1500-1900’ - £400
2009 – Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland small grant for
research project, ‘Arson and covert protest in northern England, 1800-30’ -
£830
MEDIA:
 November 2014 – BBC 2, Exploring the Past: Protest, schools’
programme on Peterloo: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04q12bj
 April 2012 – BBC Radio 4, Today programme, feature on the Luddites.
http://soundcloud.com/generalludd/richard-jones-katrina-navickas
 Nov. 2011 – BBC Radio 3, ‘Were the Luddites Right?’ public debate,
with Rana Mitter, Bill Thompson and Andrew Simms, recorded at the
‘Free Thinking festival’, Sage, Gateshead,
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b017cjqt
 July 2011 – BBC Radio 4, ‘Voices from the Old Bailey’: series 2,
programme 1, ‘Riots’, with Amanda Vickery, Tim Hitchcock and Peter
King, http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b012r6jq
 April 2011 – BBC Radio 3, ‘Nightwaves’, debate with Jeremy Black on
the Luddites.
Features in the press on my research on political clothing:
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/apr/26/students-higher-
education
 http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2011/11/occ
upy_wall_street_when_did_we_start_using_t_shirts_to_send_message
s_.html
MOST RECENT INVITED TALKS, PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT AND
CONSULTANCY:
November 2015 – speaker at the British Library Labs annual symposium and
awards ceremony, British Library
November 2015 – invited seminar paper at the University of Newcastle
September 2015 – organised a Chartist history public engagement event at
the British Library, with a walking tour and re-enactment
August 2015 – helped to organise a ‘Peterloo witness statements’
transcription workshop with Dr Robert Poole, involving members of the

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general public in co-production of transcriptions, at the People’s History
Museum, Manchester
May 2015 – invited seminar paper at the University of Southampton
November 2014 – invited speaker at colloquium, ‘Les Mondes Britanniques’,
at the Sorbonne, University of Paris
August 2014 – advisor to theatre director Lynsey Turner for a production of a
historical play at the Royal Court Theatre
May 2014 – invited speaker at public commemoration of Eric Hobsbawm at
the University of Huddersfield.
March 2014 – Manchester Histories Festival – public workshop with Dr Robert
Poole on the Home Office disturbance papers, helping members of the public
to transcribe correspondence relating to the 1817 March of the Blanketeers.
October 2013 – advisor and actor for University of Hertfordshire collaboration
with London Historians and Twisted Events production of ‘The Coroner’s
Court’, George on the Strand, London
2013 – worked with Irish Network Stevenage to co-ordinate student
volunteers, conduct oral history interviews and transcribe interviews for an
oral history project funded by Heritage Lottery Fund on the history of the Irish
community.
2013 – invited speaker at several events to commemorate the fiftieth
anniversary of the publication of The Making of the English Working Class by
E. P. Thompson (People’s History Museum, Manchester; Institute of British
Geographers, London), and Chartism Day (Sheffield Hallam)
May 2012 – plenary lecture at Huddersfield Luddite commemoration
weekend, Huddersfield Town Hall, organised by Kirklees Council and the
University of Huddersfield.
2011 – shortlisted for AHRC/BBC Radio 3 ‘New Generation Thinkers’ prize
(shortlist of 53 from over 1000 applications).
Participated in the BBC Radio 3 festival in Gateshead, November 2011,
including a guest speaker on a panel debate on the Luddites, and as part of a
public engagement event ‘meet the new generation thinkers’ with the winners
of the competition.

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EDUCATION:
St. John’s College, University of Oxford
2005 DPhil Modern History
‘Redefining Loyalism, Radicalism and National Identity: Lancashire
under the threat of Napoleon, 1798-1812’. Internal examiner: Joanna
Innes; external examiner: Michael J. Turner
2002 MSt Historical Research: Distinction
2001 BA (Hons) Modern History: class I
University of Edinburgh
2009 Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education Teaching