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Based in Nottingham (UK), we look after tens of thousands of books, journals, pamphlets, zines, leaflets, posters and other items documenting the anarchist movement in the UK and beyond, as well as local radical history. Browse our catalogue, access digitised records in our free Digital Library and get in touch to arrange a visit.
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We just posted a long list of recent additions to the Digital Library, and here comes the long overdue new Document of the Month feature!

This month we picked a local title which will also be featured in our upcoming exhibtion, an excellent example for a local alternative newspaper, providing us with that other first draft of history, documenting what other titles preferred to ignore, in this case e.g. by reporting on local resistance to the opening of the NF headquarters right in the City Centre back in 1978:

Nottingham Voice #78 (1978)

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