NEW EXHIBITION OPENS FRIDAY 5 JULY ‼️ 'I Am Who I Am Now: Selections from the Bengali Photo Archive' bit.ly/45lXCKk Many thanks Arts Council England, London The National Lottery Heritage Fund London & South Historic England Art Fund swadhinata trust Idea Store

Really enjoyed attending this BSA Alcohol Studies and @DrinkingStudies event yesterday, in a beautiful (and very relevant) venue in Nottingham. Interesting papers from different disciplinary perspectives, with very thoughtful engagement. Thanks Dr Claire Markham 🐈📚 for organising.

This 20 min audio essay is a great analysis of the contemporary politics of labour and migration in Britain and what to expect from the new Labour government if, as seems to be happening, Starmer tries to replicate the New Labour approach. A very important intervention.

Great images of London's modernist estate architecture here. I especially like the shot of the 1960/70s section of the Lansbury estate - often seen as the 'ugly' addition to the Festival of Britain part and due to demolished. I'd never appreciated it. londonist.com/london/housing…

We lost our twitter account to the birth date tech issue so we are rebuilding. We have managed to get our old handle back but lost all our followers and old tweets so please bear with us, re-follow, and send us your interesting drinking news and events.

Infrastructural Anxieties, the newest issue of roadsides - is out! And it's a great one. Edited by Mona Chettri and Mikel J.H. Venhovens roadsides.net/collection-no-…

Short piece with @JamesKneale & Vallu for Points summarising & expanding arguments we made in our paper for European Journal of Cultural Studies (EJCS) w/ some personal family history The Desi Pub: postcolonial, anti-racist histories of ‘the British pub’ pointshistory.org/post/the-desi-…

New article on the 'banal nationalism' of pub closure media narratives, with @thurnellreadsoc, now out in the British Journal of Sociology: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Really happy that our Journal of Marketing Management 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- tandfonline.com/eprint/6UIG6QU…

Normally we don't do org-wide statements about current affairs. But all of us at Novara Media are deeply concerned by what the government's plan to proscribe Palestine Action as a terror group means for freedom of expression. We oppose it unreservedly. Read our statement below.

After attending the ⁦After Last Orders?⁩ event yesterday it’s great to see it in the ⁦The Conversation⁩ today! #pubs theconversation.com/consolation-co…

Pubs are closing at a rate of 1 per day in the UK. Thomas Thurnell-Read and I wrote an article for The Conversation on the negative impact of closures and what might be done to prevent the loss of these important community assets.

Pubs are closing at a rate of 1 per day in the UK. Thomas Thurnell-Read and I wrote an article for The Conversation on the negative impacts of closures and what might be done to prevent the loss of these important community assets.theconversation.com/consolation-co…