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Jo Laycock @jolaycock.bsky.social · 1d

A general everything is awful (aside from my first years who continue to be ace) day. Have been defeated by the everlasting cold/chest infection so it’s the first round of antibiotics and steroids of the winter - let’s hope it is the last.

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Jo Laycock @jolaycock.bsky.social · 7d

It’s fascinating!

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Artyom Tonoyan @tonoyan.bsky.social · 7d

Wherein I write about the staging of the West Side Story in Soviet Armenia in 1963 open.substack.com/pub/artyom/p...

Chino's Gun

One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it.

open.substack.com

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Jo Laycock @jolaycock.bsky.social · 7d

Love this - two of my favourite things unexpectedly brought together!

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Parkes Institute @parkesinstitute.bsky.social · 10d

"Synagogue attack: the Manchester I know – by antisemitism researcher and Mancunian Jew" by Tony Kushner, James Parkes Professor of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations theconversation.com/synagogue-at...

Synagogue attack: the Manchester I know – by antisemitism researcher and Mancunian Jew

Manchester Jewry has maintained an extraordinarily strong local identity, but is notable in its diversity.

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Siobhán Hearne @siobhanhearne.bsky.social · 16d

Peripheral Histories? has just published a new author interview with Beatrice Penati about her excellent book 'Rural History of Soviet Central Asia: Land Reform and Agricultural Change in Early Soviet Uzbekistan' @peripheralhist.bsky.social www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/rural-h...

Rural History of Soviet Central Asia: Land Reform and Agricultural Change in Early Soviet Uzbekistan

Beatrice Penati’s new book Rural History of Soviet Central Asia: Land Reform and Agricultural Change in Early Soviet Uzbekistan (published with Brill, 2025) provides a comprehensive account of early S...

www.peripheralhistories.co.uk

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Jo Laycock @jolaycock.bsky.social · 20d

The new issue of Diaspora journal is out now. Our editors’ preface, renewing our commitment to the journal’s original vision and thinking about what this means in changing times, is available here: utppublishing.com/doi/pdf/10.3... open access

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Jo Laycock @jolaycock.bsky.social · 20d

The new issue of Diaspora journal is out now. Our editors’ preface, renewing our commitment to the journal’s original vision and thinking about what this means in changing times, is available here: utppublishing.com/doi/pdf/10.3... open access

utppublishing.com

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Jo Laycock @jolaycock.bsky.social · Sep 4

I am so very pleased about this and very much looking forward to future collaborations!

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Jo Laycock @jolaycock.bsky.social · Aug 29

Hurrah for chicken pox vaccinations. 9 years ago today I had chicken pox as an adult, which was absolutely horrendous. (I was also on a research trip to New York at the time and ended up stranded in my hotel room for 2 weeks, but that’s another story…)

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Jo Laycock @jolaycock.bsky.social · Aug 22

That too! And the hardest to do anything about. Hope it gets easier x

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Jo Laycock @jolaycock.bsky.social · Aug 22

I’m increasingly certain that zoom/teams video calls are a major trigger for me 🫤

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Jo Laycock @jolaycock.bsky.social · Aug 22

Sorry you are having such a rough time of it. It really is the worst.

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Hans Gutbrod @hansgutbrod.bsky.social · Aug 21

Don't forget Bahruz @smdov.bsky.social , see below.

Jailed for being for peace. #Azerbaijan #Armenia

OC Media @ocmedia.bsky.social · Aug 21

🅾️ OPINION: One year after OC Media contributor Bahruz Samadov was arrested, Azerbaijani activist Gulnara Mehdiyeva argues that his release is necessary to make the new Azerbaijani state policy of peace believable.

➡️ Read more: oc-media.org/opinion-my-f...

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will o’the wisp pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · Aug 20

let’s all just have a nap, or go to a cafe, or go for a walk. turn higher education off and on again. it’s worth a try at this point i think

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Jo Laycock @jolaycock.bsky.social · Aug 19

Heading for Sweden.

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Jo Laycock @jolaycock.bsky.social · Aug 16

Good luck!

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Jo Laycock @jolaycock.bsky.social · Aug 11

Bloody hell.

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Jo Laycock @jolaycock.bsky.social · Aug 9

Holiday. I like it in Scandinavia, not sure I want to come home.

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Jo Laycock @jolaycock.bsky.social · Aug 1

Migraine 1 - Jo 0. Looks like chapter 5 is coming on holiday with me then…

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Jo Laycock @jolaycock.bsky.social · Aug 1

Had my aids fitted this morning. Pleasantly surprised by how much I remembered about how they work from note-taking on an audiology MA about twenty years ago. Also quite amazed about all the fancy Bluetooth stuff they do, wasn’t expecting them to connect to the TV!

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The BEYOND project @non-signatory.bsky.social · Aug 1

Just released 📣

@myrmek.bsky.social's latest article, 'Transit Beirut: UNHCR, Diaspora Networks, and the Covert Resettlement of Armenians during the Cold War' is now published in Mashriq & Mahjar.

Read the full article here: lebanesestudies.ojs.chass.ncsu.edu/index.php/ma...

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Jo Laycock @jolaycock.bsky.social · Jul 30

Today I have written 5000 words and seen a baby badger in my garden. That counts as an excellent day at the moment.

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Municipal Dreams @municipaldreams.bsky.social · Jul 26

1/ My concluding post on the history of council housing in Rochdale looks at the Lower Falinge Estate, stigmatised as 'England’s benefits capital', and the sadly notorious Freehold Estate. What went wrong and where are we now?
municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2025/07/22/a...

A History of Council Housing in Rochdale: Part III, from 1967 to the Present

We left Rochdale in last week’s post contemplating the failure of its Ashfield Valley Estate, completed in 1968 and all but demolished by 1992. For the moment, let’s return to the heady days and hi…

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Crisis Group @crisisgroup.org · Jul 25

‘Famine experts warned that this would happen. Israel’s experiment in ‘calibrated deprivation’ in Gaza has been proved reckless and catastrophic,’ writes Amjad Iraqi, @crisisgroup.org’s senior Israel/Palestine analyst. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...

Amjad Iraqi | Walking Corpses

Israel’s allies are still buying time for Israel to change course or come to a deal with Hamas over how many trucks to...

www.lrb.co.uk

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