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.
Advanced search (Alternatively, you can access parts of our Digital Library at the Internet Archive.)
Digital Library only

Hello everyone! We hope this finds you all well. Please feel free to read this as a pdf document.

Hello everyone! We hope this finds you all well. Please feel free to read this as a pdf document.

Hello everyone! We hope this finds you all well. Please feel free to read this as a pdf document.

Hello everyone! We hope this finds you all well. Please feel free to read this as a pdf document.

We have added another 70 items to the Digital Library, mostly issues of Black Flag (please also the the post listing all of our BF archive).

  1. New additions to the Digital Library - Sep 2024 | Part 2
  2. New additions to the Digital Library - Sep 2024
  3. New additions to the Digital Library: Early issues of Freedom
  4. Under the Rainbow | Documents and Artefacts from Five Decades of LGBTQ+ Struggle and Liberation

EU e-Privacy Directive