Robert Deakin
@robertdeakin.bsky.social
Anthropologist. Researching UK pub closures at Loughborough University.
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...
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...
October 15, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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...
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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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
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!
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!
Excited to share the first three case study 'long reads' from the After Last Orders project - funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk. 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.uk
September 18, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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
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!
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!
Excited to share the first three case study 'long reads' from the After Last Orders project - funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk. 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.uk
September 18, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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!
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!
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.
@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.
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-...
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.
theconversation.com
July 16, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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.
@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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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-...
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.
theconversation.com
July 16, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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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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...
July 1, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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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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!
GOOD MORNING! Here's our regular weekly round up of beer and pub links and news. 🍺🍻
boakandbailey.com/2025/05/news...
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News, nuggets and longreads 31 May 2025: Time Shelter
Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got California common, mild madness, and ‘banal nationalism’.
boakandbailey.com
May 31, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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!
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.bsky.social, now out in the British Journal of Sociology: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
May 13, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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.bsky.social, now out in the British Journal of Sociology: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
May 12, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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....
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/
roadsides.net/deakin-012/
November 20, 2024 at 10:04 AM
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/
roadsides.net/deakin-012/
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Sadiq Khan and Transport for London were on the cusp of transforming the capital's roads. London Centric has all the details.
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November 14, 2024 at 9:20 AM
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.
If you like what you read, your support would be much appreciated — and paying subscribers always get the big stories first.