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

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

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

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. after-last-orders.lboro.ac.uk/mcglynns/

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

The Litten Tree, Coventry. Part of a 1990s hybrid pub-bar-nightclub chain which collapsed in 2007, it was run independently as a budget-friendly boozer before closing in 2023. To be demolished in a city-centre regeneration scheme. after-last-orders.lboro.ac.uk/the-litten-t...

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

The Three Lions, Meden Vale. A large, multi-room 1960s pub in a former Nottinghamshire mining village, it was the village's last informal meeting space. Closed on New Years Eve 2021, it is due to make way for a 41 unit housing development. after-last-orders.lboro.ac.uk/the-three-li...

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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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