Robert Deakin @robertdeakin.bsky.social

Anthropologist. Researching UK pub closures @AfterLastOrders @LboroCSSP. PhD @goldanth on urban regeneration, gentrification and heritage in Poplar, east London

[After Last Orders? @AfterLastOrders]

Pleased to learn that our 'long-read' on the closure of McGlynn's, Kings Cross, featured in @BoakandBailey 's 'best beer writing 2025'.

Might be of interest to @dead_pubs

[After Last Orders? @AfterLastOrders]

📢 New case study alert!
We’ve just published the latest long read case study for the After Last Orders project — exploring the closure of the famous Birmingham pub the Bartons Arms👉 https://t.co/q7GXMUmOiW

[Richard Johnson @richardmarcj]

There was basically no good-faith effort in Labour or among most commentators to learn the lessons of the 2017 general election, when Labour won 40% of the vote and gained 10 points from the previous general election.

It didn't give the Labour Right the result they 'wanted'.

[Nesrine Malik @NesrineMalik]

What links Jeffrey Epstein and Keir Starmer’s government? A thick seam of contempt https://t.co/aGKh8Ijwww

[Robert Deakin @robertdeakin.bsky.social @robertdeakin1]

Please to share the latest 'long read' from mine and @ThurnellReadSoc 's research on UK pub closures.

[After Last Orders? @AfterLastOrders]

Our latest long-read is up!
The White Horse in Kimpton, Hertfordshire closed in 2014. For over a decade, residents have campaigned to reopen it as a community-owned pub rather than see it converted into a private residence. Links to this and other published long reads, below!

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

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[Robert Deakin @robertdeakin.bsky.social @robertdeakin1]

Our case studies attempted to capture the diversity of pubs and the communities they serve, across rural-urban geographies and regions. Stay tuned for future long-reads about closed pubs in coastal Wales, city center Manchester, suburban Birmingham and rural Hertfordshire.

[Robert Deakin @robertdeakin.bsky.social @robertdeakin1]

We've just launched the website showcasing our research on pub closure!

Each 'long read' tells the story of a different pub closure, drawing on field visits, archival research and extensive interviews with those connected to it.

Links below!

[After Last Orders? @AfterLastOrders]

Excited to share the first three case study 'long reads' from the After Last Orders project. Each case study draws on extensive research to tell the story of a pub and the people and places affected by its closure. https://t.co/XE7vsl2qE2

[Robert Deakin @robertdeakin.bsky.social @robertdeakin1]

McGlynn's, Kings Cross.

An Irish pub which closed suddenly in 2023 after the death of its long term licensee. Celebrated in the media and popular with a wide-range of people, we explore the convivial qualities of this much lamented pub.

https://t.co/gMLu0GaTSr

[Robert Deakin @robertdeakin.bsky.social @robertdeakin1]

@MParsfield @meadwaj @AbiWilks @mattzarb @broseph_stalin @danhind Can you suggest any good things to read on this issue, Matt? Polanski has done well to point out obvious issues around military alliance with the US when Trump is floating the idea of invading Greenland etc. But can be a difficult argument to make, especially re: Ukraine

[Victoria Wells @ProfessorPubUK]

After attending the ⁦@AfterLastOrders⁩ event yesterday it’s great to see it in the ⁦@ConversationUK⁩ today! #pubs https://t.co/u36e7JcMlN

[Robert Deakin @robertdeakin.bsky.social @robertdeakin1]

Pubs are closing at a rate of 1 per day in the UK.
@ThurnellReadSoc and I wrote an article for
@ConversationUK on the negative impacts of closures and what might be done to prevent the loss of these important community assets.https://t.co/Vw1biBQ0GI

[Robert Deakin @robertdeakin.bsky.social @robertdeakin1]

Pubs are closing at a rate of 1 per day in the UK. @ThurnellReadSoc and I wrote an article for The Conversation on the negative impact of closures and what might be done to prevent the loss of these important community assets.

[After Last Orders? @AfterLastOrders]

Delighted to share some of the insights from the After Last Orders project on the social and cultural impacts of pub closures in The Conversation.
https://t.co/oKJHoMXLgp

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[Victoria Wells @ProfessorPubUK]

Really happy that our @JMM_news special issue 'conversation' is now out "A pint-sized conversation: publicans, brewers, and academics on the UK beer, pub and brewing industry" - first 50 downloads free- https://t.co/nANIh2KMgf

[Robert Deakin @robertdeakin.bsky.social @robertdeakin1]

the pub is more often represented as a space of cross-class national cohesion, without which the ‘social fabric’ of the nation might fall apart. 4/4

[Robert Deakin @robertdeakin.bsky.social @robertdeakin1]

This paper explores how pub closure portrayed in British print media from 2000 to 2023, revealing a consistent narrative that frames these losses as a threat to the British nation. 1/4

[Robert Deakin @robertdeakin.bsky.social @robertdeakin1]

New article on the 'banal nationalism' of pub closure media narratives, with @thurnellreadsoc, now out in the British Journal of Sociology: https://t.co/zBe37V8qsg

[Robert Deakin @robertdeakin.bsky.social @robertdeakin1]

as well as their multiple forms of exclusion and inequality across distinctions of race, class and gender. Whereas previous research has highlighted the ways pub closure has been articulated in relation to a figure of an aggrieved ‘white working class’ our research finds that 3/4