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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News and events

News and events from The Sparrows' Nest.

Please see below for a list of new additions to the Digitial Library. This time it is a rather ecclectic mix of documents, also including a bunch of comics which we digitised for a researcher last November. If you ever want us to digitise some specific document, please let us know.

Welcome back to our Document of the Month feature, showcasing some of the awesome documents in our collections. Apologies for not having a November document, but to make up for it, we finish with a particularly nice one...

Welcome back to our Document of the Month feature, showcasing some of the awesome documents in our collections.

Nefarious Notts: Radical Archiving: Stories of Social Protest

Friday, 1st December, 2.30pm at Notts Archives

We have been asked by the brilliant Nottinghamshire Archives to showcase our collections. Free entry, booking advised.

A few months ago we digitised a large number of issues of Counter Information to help someone's research. Working through a box of uncatalogued documents under "C", we found quite a few of the missing items, so we thought we might as well (almost) complete the set.

  1. Document of the Month – September 2017
  2. Additions to the Digital Library - September 2017
  3. Document of the Month – August 2017
  4. Document of the Month – July 2017

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