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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 have updated our Digital Library with another 182 items. Feel free to dig into another 4.38GB of documents at your leisure...

We have updated our Digital Library with another 150 items. Dive in!

Our first document of the month in 2021 is...

Alexander Berkman's diary depicting the Kronstadt Revolt, printed in Anarchy Vol:07 #11 (1967), begins with his account of events in Petrograd on 28/02/1921, a century ago today.

We made this issue of Anarchy our Document of the Month.

We just uploaded our latest batch of new items to our Digital Library, a bit delayed, but this one is a hefty addition of 163 new items.

  1. New additions to the Digital Library - December 2020 (Part 2)
  2. Document of the Month – December 2020
  3. New additions to the Digital Library - December 2020
  4. Document of the Month – October 2020

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