The Sparrows Nest

We recently had a request from the French-speaking Anarchist Federation for articles in Class War paper about football, so we are scanning in relevant pages of our archive from the 1980s onwards: http://thesparrowsnest.org.uk/scans/class_war_football/

Scanned articles on other topics can be found at http://thesparrowsnest.org.uk/scans/

Since it's the 20th anniversary of the infamous Robin Hood council house invasion in March 2010, we have scanned in most of our archive of local Nottingham and Notts anti-Poll Tax press cuttings, newsletters and leaflets from 1989-1990s. Hope you enjoy reading them. Please send us your publications and cuttings (or scans of these) if you still have them and would like to donate to the Sparrows' Nest. We aim to build up our local struggle collections over the coming years. More scanned articles can be found at http://thesparrowsnest.org.uk/scans/

We plan to scan in some of the interesting and rarer material held by the Sparrows' Nest.

For a taster, read a rough scan and also a typed up version of Anarchy issue 38 (vol 4, no 1) 1964, with articles by Philip Callow (Nottingham United), Ray Gosling (Robin Hood Rides Again - a rebel scene), Clifford Lee (Nottingham at 14), Anon (Riotous times in Nottingham 1754-1854), Paul Ritter (Planning for Man and Motor in Nottingham), Harold Drasdo (Pages from a Nottingham Notebook), Alan Sillitoe (Poor People).

If that’s a bit before your time, how about the 2008 smear of Earth First! in The Observer?

More scanned material: http://thesparrowsnest.org.uk/scans/

Take a look at our Online catalogue with searchable keywords: ANARCHIST BOOKS/PAMPHLETS - note fairly large file size.
Alternatively, Download/print catalogue by author (no keywords): ANARCHIST BOOKS/PAMPHLETS. 

Some of contents of the existing library and archive are as follows:

• The Sparrows' Nest book collection. Books and pamphlets by and about anarchists, and directly influencing or influenced by Anarchist thought and practice. It has an oversize shelf too.
• The Sparrows’ Nest public archive. Papers and other historical anarchist materials.
• The Sparrows’ Nest periodicals collection. Current and back-issues of papers and magazine still very much alive and kicking.
• The Sparrows’ Nest art collection. Novels, poems and art by and about anarchists.
• Personal archives already in custody. A local anarchist’s collection; International and UK Anarchist organisations; A local labour activist’s collection.
• General Left’s collection. Non-anarchist materials that Anarchists also read.

Current in-print magazines papers & bulletins include: Abolishing the Borders from Below, Black Flag, Freedom, Organise!, Resistance, Catalyst, Direct Action, Bread & Roses, Industrial Worker, Aufheben, Shift, Workers Solidarity, Northeastern anarchist, Anarcho-syndicalist Review, Zabalaza, plus various local publications (Bath Bomb, Disobey, Gagged, LCAP, Voices from Occupied London, Now or Never) & workplace bulletins (Education Worker, Healthworker). Many back issues.