Great to hear from you Kelly. Thanks for your interest!

Thanks James!

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...

Hadn't noticed this - great!

the pub is more often represented as a space of national cohesion, without which the ‘social fabric’ of the nation might fall apart. (4/4)

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)

Using Billig's concept of 'banal nationalism', we highlight how these emotive stories seek to include the reader within an imagined national community of loss, rhetorically transcending the diverse realities of pubs and the communities they serve, (2/4)

Drawing on still images and video created by and with a long-term resident of an estate undergoing redevelopment, it explores the anxieties provoked by gentrification and how these interact with longer-running injuries of class.