Welcome to the Sparrows' Nest Library and Archive

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 added another 89 items to the Digital Library. Many thanks to the estate of Colin Ward who so generously entrusted us with many treasures from his home office.

PAMPHLETS

Agriculture and the Social Revolution

Anarchism - Six Essays by Members of London Anarchist Group (LAG, 1965)

Bakunin, Michael: God and the State (The Bakunin Press, 1920)

Barrett, George: The First Person (Freedom, 1963)

Bourne, Randolph: The State (The Resistance Press, 1947)

Comfort, Alex: What Rough Beast?

de Jong, Rudolf: Provos & Kabouters (Friends of Malatesta)

Gambone, L: Proudhon and Anarchism - Proudhon's Libertarian Thought and the Anarchist Movement (Red Lion Press, 1996)

LEAFLETS & OTHER

A letter from the Birmingham Six, sent after their release, thanking activists for their efforts and an invitation to a celebration in London.

Carlos Presente Memorial Rally - Antifacscist Murdered by a Nazi 11.11.2007 (AF/Antifa poster)

Celebrating Christopher Richardson - Committed Socialist, proud fighter for LGBTQ+ liberation, accomplished historian & occasional Thatcher impersonator (People's Histreh, 2022)

Freedom Anarchy Contents and Errata

New Labour = Cheap Labour - New Deal Threatens Claimants (Haringey Solidarity Group)

Photocopy of a letter by Leonard Motler who went to South Africa to Tom Keel, editor of Freedom; kept with Public Archive M 'leaflets and other'.

Refugees - Myths & Realities (WAR)

The state is violence at home and abroad - Stop the Police State - No More Capitalist Wars (AF poster)

JOURNALS, MAGS, ETC

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Nottingham Animal Rights 1993/04-05

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