Anthropologist. Researching UK pub closures @AfterLastOrders @LboroCSSP. PhD @goldanth on urban regeneration, gentrification and heritage in Poplar, east London
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Robert Deakin @robertdeakin.bsky.social retweeted
May 18
This is a fantastic piece of research from @Sachahilhorst at @Cmmonwealth on why and how the post-industrial Midlands towns of Mansfield, Corby and Coalville have shifted to the right
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Robert Deakin @robertdeakin.bsky.social retweeted
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
15 Oct 2025
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.
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Robert Deakin @robertdeakin.bsky.social retweeted
📢 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👉 after-last-orders.lboro.ac.u…
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Robert Deakin @robertdeakin.bsky.social retweeted
Feb 27
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'.
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Robert Deakin @robertdeakin.bsky.social retweeted
What links Jeffrey Epstein and Keir Starmer’s government? A thick seam of contempt theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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Please to share the latest 'long read' from mine and @ThurnellReadSoc 's research on UK pub closures.
15 Oct 2025
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!
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Robert Deakin @robertdeakin.bsky.social retweeted
6 Oct 2025
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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!
15 Sep 2025
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. after-last-orders.lboro.ac.u…
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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.
after-last-orders.lboro.ac.u…
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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.
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Robert Deakin @robertdeakin.bsky.social retweeted
16 Jul 2025
After attending the @AfterLastOrders event yesterday it’s great to see it in the @ConversationUK today! #pubs theconversation.com/consolat…
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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.theconversation.com/consolat…
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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.
16 Jul 2025
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.
theconversation.com/consolat…
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Robert Deakin @robertdeakin.bsky.social retweeted
1 Jul 2025
Normally we don't do org-wide statements about current affairs. But all of us at Novara Media are deeply concerned by what the government's plan to proscribe Palestine Action as a terror group means for freedom of expression. We oppose it unreservedly.
Read our statement below.
1 Jul 2025
Tomorrow, MPs will debate and vote on a measure to proscribe the protest group Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation.
Without equivocation or caveat, Novara Media stands opposed to this historic infringement on freedom of expression.
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Robert Deakin @robertdeakin.bsky.social retweeted
1 Jul 2025
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- tandfonline.com/eprint/6UIG6…
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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
New article on the 'banal nationalism' of pub closure media narratives, with @thurnellreadsoc, now out in the British Journal of Sociology: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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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
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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
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