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Archive of The Enchanted Glass

    Tom Nairn
    23 January 2023
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    Tom Nairn: The Twilight of the British State

    Tom Nairn, who died on Saturday morning, 21st January 2023, made his name with a series of coruscating essays on the British state published in New Left Review and collected in the 1977 book The Break-Up of Britain.  Here, we republish Tom Nairn's classic account of the nature, and the twilight, of the British state.

    Tom Nairn
    09 September 2022
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    The Sociology of Grovelling

    The toast of Tory and Labour leaders alike, the British Monarchy offers eloquent testimony to the persistence of the country’s Old Regime. These excerpts from Tom Nairn’s The Enchanted Glass, first published during the cultural reaction of the Thatcher years, offer a republican antidote to Jubilee kitsch and state-sponsored sycophancy.

    Peter Hallward
    01 July 2016
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    The Will to Leave?

    Ellen Meiksins Wood
    14 January 2016
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    "The Peculiarities of the English and the Decline of Britain"—Ellen Meiksins Wood on the Nairn-Anderson thesis and the Bourgeois paradigm

    Rosie Warren
    18 September 2014
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    Tom Nairn's Break-Up of Britain: Extract

    Rosie Warren
    12 September 2014
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    Tom Nairn's Break-Up of Britain: Extract

    Clément Petitjean
    28 January 2014
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    Your country needs you!: Responses to the World War I Centenary

    Lewis Bassett
    05 April 2013
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    The welfare state we’re in – A reading list for the present class war

    Elena Greer
    03 August 2012
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    A Reading List for the Olympics: Part One

    Rowan Wilson
    01 June 2012
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    Against Patriotism, Against Monarchy - A Reading List

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