Tom Nairn was born in Freuchie, Fife on 2nd June 1932. Educated in
Soctland, Tom went to Dunfermline High School before attending the
Edinburgh College of Art from 1950-51. After the first year of his
Fine Art degree, however, he switched to Philosophy, graduating
from the University of Edinburgh in 1956 with a first class Honours
degree in Mental Philosophy. Heading south, Tom went on to study at
Oriel College, Oxford under Iris Murdoch but he left in 1959
without completing his B.Litt degree. After a 'therapeutic
conversion to mild-mannered Marxism', and a Carnegie Scholarship at
Rome University, Tom lived in France for a couple of years. In 1962
he joined the editorial board of the New Left Review and it was
from this period that what would later be called the
'Nairn-Anderson theses' on British Decline emerged.
From 1962 until 1969 Tom Nairn lectured at various universities in
the UK, including Birmingham University and the Hornsey College of
Art. Sacked from the latter af
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