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Born: June 01 1932

Tom Nairn is a Scottish political theorist of nationalism. He is an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Government and International Affairs at Durham University.

Nairn attended Dunfermline High School and Edinburgh College of Art before graduating from the University of Edinburgh with an MA in Philosophy in 1956. During the 1960s, he taught at various institutions including the University of Birmingham , coming to prominence in the occupation of Hornsey College of Art , after which he was dismissed. He worked at the Transnational Institute, Amsterdam from 1972–76, and then as a journalist and TV researcher before a year at the Central European University with Ernest Gellner and then setting up and running a Masters course on Nationalism at University of Edinburgh . In 2001 he was invited to take up an Innovation Professorship in Nationalism and Cultural Diversity at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia, leaving in January 2010. Returning to the UK, he became a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at Durham University in 2009.

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Tom Nairn

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Books from Tom Nairn

The Break Up of Britain: Crisis and Neo-Nationalism

The Enchanted Glass: Britain and its Monarchy

Faces of Nationalism: Janus Revisited

After Britain: New Labour and the Return of Scotland

The Left Against Europe?

A Claim of Right for Scotland

A Nation Again: Why Independence will be Good for Scotland (and England Too)

Island Governments: The Experience of Autonomous Island Groups in Northern Europe in Relation to Shetland's Political Future

Global Matrix: Nationalism, Globalism and State-Terrorism

Auld Enemies

法国1968：终结的开始

Pariah: Misfortunes of The British Kingdom

Old Nations, Auld Enemies, New Times

Neil Gunn - Centennial Reflections

The International Journal of the Humanities: Volume 9, Issue 5

The International Journal Of The Humanities, volume 7 number 1

The International Journal Of The Humanities, volume 7 number 2

The International Journal Of The Humanities, volume 8 number 4

The International Journal of the Humanities: Volume 8, Number 8

Εθνικισμός, ο σύγχρονος Ιανός: Πατριωτισμός, διεθνισμός και εθνικό ζήτημα