But he found this work frivolous and uninspiring, so after less than a year Kingsnorth left to join the environmental campaign group EarthAction. With this background, he started working on the comment desk of The Independent in 1994. Īt Oxford, Kingsnorth edited the University's longest-running student newspaper, Cherwell. After chaining himself to a bridge alongside fifty others, Kingsnorth was arrested, an event that solidified the importance of protest for him. During this period he became involved in the Dongas road protest group at sites including Twyford Down, Solsbury Hill, and the M11 link road protest in east London. Kingsnorth was educated at the Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe, and St Anne's College, Oxford, where he studied modern history. Kingsnorth describes his father's background as "working-class," and he says that his father pushed Kingsnorth to go to university.
His father was a passionate Thatcherite, a businessman, and a mechanical engineer. Kingsnorth spent his childhood in southern England with two younger brothers (one went on to work with Friends of the Earth, the other for Citibank).
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