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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Using our catalogue

Since the Sparrows' Nest opened in December 2008 we have continuously worked to process our ever extending collections, preserving, cataloguing and if possible digitising materials.

Please note that despite us putting many hours of work into cataloguing our collections, there remain many items yet uncatalogued, and if you have some time to spare, we always appreciate some help please!

To access the catalogue and to search for digitised documents, please use our Search function.

If you have any questions, spotted an error or want to ask for/add additional information, please do not hesitate to contact us.

If you have any materials you would like to donate or to be held in the library or archive, please contact us!

Donations to help us build the collections are very welcome. Please visit our Donations page.

Some of our greatest treasures arrived looking like random heaps of smelly paper. So if you have access to potentially interesting materials, be it pamphlets, bulletines, zines, papers, letters, etc. please DO NOT throw them out, but let us know!

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