Some key themes emerging from this case study:
- A remarkable but vulnerable heritage pub
- Location and heritage as both asset and liability
- Management turbulence and financial pressures
- Cultural importance and community attachment

Water colour illustration of The Bartons Arms pub.

📢 New case study alert!
We’ve just published the latest long read case study for the After Last Orders project — exploring the closure of the famous Birmingham pub the Bartons Arms👉 after-last-orders.lboro.ac.uk/the-bartons-...

Pub blackboard explaining "All of the Brewery memorabilia in this area is from now closed English Breweries"

A quick visit to the "Brewery Graveyard" at the Bread and Bitter in Mapperley, Nottingham.

Excellent stuff Pete.

Thanks Amit. Really looking forward to reading this, as I'm sure plenty of @drinkingstudies.bsky.social folks will be too!

The 15-minute call where hundreds of 'devastated' Brewdog staff were made redundant The independent brewer and pub chain has been bought by US beverage and cannabis firm Tilray in a £33m deal.

Disgraceful.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Drinks, darts, DJs and drag queens: the artwork that’s a fully-functioning pub – with the artist pulling pints Young Glasgow artist Trackie McLeod talks us through Utopia, the boozer he built from scratch where punters can sink a beer, throw darts at Thatcher or Trump – and win chocolate coins from one-armed b...

Drinks, darts, DJs and drag queens: the artwork that’s a fully-functioning pub – with the artist pulling pints www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Incredible consistency. Every pint or can I've had from them tastes great and is technically flawless.

Exploring no and low alcohol consumption Multi-perspective research exploring NoLo alcohol’s global impact, consumer typologies, trade visibility, economic effects, and policy tools.

If you are a pub/bar/restaurant/hotel/council that would like to use our nolo
point of sale materials/publicans guide you can find them here www.york.ac.uk/business-soc...
They are FREE to use!!!
Grateful for any shares to get them out there!

Qualitative Sampling and Sample size with Karen O'Reilly An interactive online session examining interpretive sampling as outlined in Karen's book Qualitative Research Methods for Everyone.

Useful looking online methods event on Qualitative Sampling and Sample size with @profkarenoreilly.bsky.social

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/qualitativ...

Watercolour illustration of front of a closed pub, signage reads After Last Orders.

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

Brilliant event, thanks for organising Claire!

Lincoln cat travels over 30 miles to Nottingham pub - twice Peanut has managed to twice find his way from Lincoln to Castle Rock Brewery in Nottingham.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sad to see this famous and much-celebrated pub close. Have you seen this footage from 1974? Even then they were asking how the Bartons Arms could be 'miraculously still standing'! www.macearchive.org/films/atv-to...

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.

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-...

A huge thanks to the wonderful interdisciplinary group of academics, writers and researchers who visited @lborouniversity.bsky.social yesterday to discuss findings from our Leverhulme Trust funded After Last Orders project on the social and cultural impacts of pub closures.

"You okay mate?" The Notts pub that’s getting men talking about their feelings The national mental health crisis and its profound effect on men is a phenomenon widely talked about that lots of people have posed different solutions to. In Sneinton Market however, LeftLion neighbo...

"You okay mate?" The Notts pub that’s getting men talking about their feelings leftlion.co.uk/features/202...

Young people's consumption of no/low alcohol drinks in family settings - Sheffield Addictions Research Group This project explores young people's consumption of no/low alcohol drinks in Great Britain, focusing on family settings. Using surveys and interviews, it will investigate adult perceptions, consumptio...

'Young people's consumption of no/low alcohol drinks in family settings' | new project launch @sarg-scharr.bsky.social sarg-sheffield.ac.uk/projects/you...

Great being involved in this. Thanks @professorpub.bsky.social for setting the stage and facilitating the discussion.

‘Parenthood is messy’: what it’s really like to raise a child – in pictures Aware that social media paints an unrealistic picture of ‘perfect’ parenting, Kirsten Lewis spent 15 years capturing the raw reality of life with kids. Her message? Your children love you!

‘Parenthood is messy’: what it’s really like to raise a child – in pictures www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Absolutely! Its on a growing list of summer reading about to be ordered.

The article on the history of GBBF is brilliant!

Impromptu visit to what might as well be called the South Leamington Beer Furlong.

Stonegate sees boom in low and no alcohol beers and cider sales Guinness 0% topped the list of best performing low alcohol beers, followed by Heineken 0.0%, Old Mout Berries 0%, Peroni Nastro and Days Lager 0%

www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/Article/2025...

The first article from our @leverhulme.ac.uk funded project 'After Last Orders?: A biographical exploration of the impact of UK pub closures' is now published in British Journal of Sociology. Open access via the link below.

After-work drinks in decline outside London, peers told A Lords committee hears Thursday is the new Friday for city-centre workers - but only in the capital.

Interesting that the uptake of remote and hybrid working is shifting the timing and location of leisure and retail spending, with suburban supermarkets the big winner. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Oh, yes please :)

So many lovely and brilliant people involved in this series of talks taking place in in some excellent Bristol pubs this spring/summer @goodchembrew.bsky.social @drinkingstudies.bsky.social @boakandbailey.bsky.social @philmellows.bsky.social