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Robert Deakin @robertdeakin.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Pleased to learn that my long-read on the closure of McGlynn's featured in @boakandbailey.bsky.social 's round-up of 'best beer writing of 2025'! Might be of interest to: @pelliclemag.com @totalcurtis.bsky.social

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Robert Deakin @robertdeakin.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Nice to see a write up of our research on pub closures in the Morning Advertiser

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Robert Deakin @robertdeakin.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

'Jimmy's Archive' - the short film I co-directed as part of my PhD - has just been published open-access in the Journal of Anthropological Films: doi.org/10.15845/jaf... The film centres on Jimmy -a long-term resident of a social housing estate in Poplar, east London, currently being redeveloped...

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Robert Deakin @robertdeakin.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

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. Read the full story here: after-last-orders.lboro.ac.uk/the-white-ho...

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James Kneale @jameskneale.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

This is a fantastic project, and these case studies and accompanying illustrations are wonderful. There are so many bad takes on pub closures, so these careful, thoughtful studies are really important. Looking forward to more of this work being published and shared @drinkingstudies.bsky.social

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Robert Deakin @robertdeakin.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

We've just launched a website showcasing our research on pub closure! Each 'long-read' explores the story of a closed pub and its social and cultural significance, drawing on field visits, archival research and extensive interviews with those connected to it. Links below!

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Robert Deakin @robertdeakin.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

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

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Dr Thomas Thurnell-Read @thurnellreadsoc.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Drawing on our research for the @leverhulmetrust.bsky.social funded After Last Orders project, @robertdeakin.bsky.social and I share some insights into the impact of pub closures in this new article for @uk.theconversation.com theconversation.com/consolation-...

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Consolation, community, national identity: what is lost when pubs close – and how they can be saved

The cost of running a pub has risen dramatically.

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Victoria Wells aka Professor Pub 🍻 @professorpub.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Really happy that our @jmmnews.bsky.social 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- www.tandfonline.com/eprint/6UIG6...

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Victoria Wells aka Professor Pub 🍻 @professorpub.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Great to see the new paper by @thurnellreadsoc.bsky.social and @robertdeakin.bsky.social covered in this weeks round up! Always good to see academic papers getting out of universities!

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Robert Deakin @robertdeakin.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

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)

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Robert Deakin @robertdeakin.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

New article on the 'banal nationalism' of pub closure media narratives with @thurnellreadsoc.bsky.social, now out in the British Journal of Sociology: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Robert Deakin @robertdeakin.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

A multimedia article based on my PhD research in east London has just been published by the open-access journal Roadsides. It's part of a collection on 'infrastructural anxieties'. roadsides.net/deakin-012/

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 14/11/2024

I've put this story outside the paywall for the rest of today, in case you want to see the type of journalism that I'm working on with London Centric. If you like what you read, your support would be much appreciated — and paying subscribers always get the big stories first.

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