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.

Apologies, although we did add materials to the server last month, it has been a while since you a proper update. But we have been beavering away as ever, sorting, cataloguing and digitising materials.

We are currently focussing on preparing for our upcoming exhibition of local alternative and radical news media (and will stay rather busy doing that for a little while yet!), so many of the documents below are local stuff, but as ever they are mixed with various cool things we came across, as well as a good number of documents that were requested by visitors.

Exhibition of Local Alternative and Radical News Media @ Nottingham Contemporary Sep 27-29 2019.

Featuring loads of awesome materials!

Please see below for our latest additions to the Digital Library: 62 issues of the ACF/AF's magazine Organise!

Welcome back to our Document of the Month feature!

On Saturday 27th April we ran a workshop as guests of the Notts Zine Library, currently based at Nottingham Contemporary.

  1. Document of the Month – Apr 2019
  2. New additions to the Digital Library - Apr 2019
  3. Document of the Month – Mar 2019
  4. New additions to the Digital Library - Mar 2019

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Events/Meetings Article Count:  3

Links/Friends Article Count:  4

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