The Sparrows Nest

Since it's the 20th anniversary of the infamous Robin Hood council house invasion in March 2010, we have scanned in most of our archive of local Nottingham and Notts anti-Poll Tax press cuttings, newsletters and leaflets from 1989-1990s. Hope you enjoy reading them. Please send us your publications and cuttings (or scans of these) if you still have them and would like to donate to the Sparrows' Nest. We aim to build up our local struggle collections over the coming years. More scanned articles can be found at http://thesparrowsnest.org.uk/scans/

The Sparrows' Nest is hosting a meeting with comrades from the very-newly established Slovenian Anarchist Federation on Monday 26th Oct at 8.00pm. It's a last-minute job (they are over for the London Anarchist bookfair and we've persuaded them to visit) so if you can help spread the word, please do.

The meeting is entitled 'Balkan Anarchism: A Slovenian Perspective'.

On Wednesday 23rd September 2009 one of The Sparrows' Nest collective had the pleasure of attending a meeting of NORLA - Network of Radical Libraries & Archives - which aims to share experiences of archiving and making available collections of radical materials. Apart from The Sparrows' Nest, participants included individuals from the Bishopsgate Institute (our hosts ,whose library is currently being refurbished), The Women's Library at London Metropolitan University, The Feminist Library, The Peace Pledge Union and 56a Infoshop, which are all based in London. Read more for links to their archive pages plus more about NORLA and future plans.

We don't have any special event planned at The Sparrows' Nest in August, but we are open as usual and if you have time to visit you'll find lots of new books and magazines thanks to AK Press, Kate Sharpley Library, Mayday, and not least from ex-students who have donated books after finishing university degrees, plus other anarchist individuals who have scoured their personal collections. We've also kindly been offered a subscription to Freedom anarchist paper, following an earlier substantial donation of titles from Freedom Press, and received a donation of 0-9 The System Deluxe by Helix Arts in Newcastle.