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...

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.

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/

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...

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...

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/