News and events from The Sparrows' Nest.
We have added another 27 items to the Digital Library.
Read more: New additions to the Digital Library - Sep 2024 | Part 2
We have just added another 127 items to the Digital Library (including a handful of reuploads of previously scanned materials). Dive in!
From Thursday 25th July to Sunday 4th August 2024 we put on an exhibition at Broadway Cinema Gallery to coincide with Nottingham Pride. We worked with our regular collaborators, People’s Histreh and photographer Alan ‘Tash’ Lodge, and also our fab new friend, journalist and author CJ DeBarra. CJ has just submitted the manuscript of their new, two-volume work entitled Queer Nottingham, forthcoming in early 2025 from Five Leaves. They also gave a sell-out talk at Nottingham Central Library on Thursday 1st August.
We are incredibly grateful to the Working Class Movement Library that they entrusted us with their collection of early issues of Freedom. We have digitised these issues and added them to our digital collection of Freedom newspapers. The originals will be returned to WCML.
Next time you find yourself west of the Pennines, make sure to visit their beautiful library and browse their amazing collections.
Prioritising the safety of the precious documents at all times, in combination with the minute font size on many pages, resulted in our equipment being pushed to the limits. About two thirds of the documents came out very nice, but contrast on the others could be a bit crisper. We are however very pleased that all are comfortably readable. All PDF files feature OCR, which even on the fuzzier paragraphs still has a very high degree of accuracy.
Once more our sincere thanks to everyone at WCML who made this possible.
Access the new additions below or browse our entire collection of Freedom.
Read more: New additions to the Digital Library: Early issues of Freedom
Read our roundup of our 15th year below or as a pdf file. Many thanks to everyone for everything you have done for us this and every year since we first opened back in December 2008.