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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New additions to the Digital Library - November 2021

We have added another 71 items to our Digital Library.

Pamphlets

100 Years of May Day (DAM, 1986)

Anarchism and Ireland (Workers Solidarity Movement, 1985)

Anarchy in Action - The Spanish Revolution (DAM)

Direct Action in Industry (DAM)

Douglass, Dave: Tell us lies about the Miners - The Role of the Media in the Great Coal Strike of 1984/1985 (DAM, 1985)

Fight Alton - Fight for Abortion Rights! (DAM)

Khalid Abdullah, Ali: Prison Writings (ABC, 1999)

Outside and against the Unions - A Communist Response to Dave Douglass' text "Refracted Perspective" (Wildcat, 1992)

Rank and File - Building for Change (DAM)

Riesel, Rene; Boggs, Carl: Workers Councils - Preliminary Notes on Councils and Organisaton & Marxism, Prefigurative Communism and the Problem of Workers Control (Rising Free)

Strike Action (DAM, 1984)

The Annual Report of the Campaign for Homosexual Equality - June 1974-May 1975 (CHE)

The Playtime Omnibus - A Miscellany for Young People compiled by the Workers Playtime Group (Phoenix Press)

Wage Slavery - For no chance - A Text from the 80's

Ward, Colin: Housing is Theft - Housing is Freedom (Old Hammond Press)

What's Wrong with John Redwood? - A Pamphlet by the Wokingham Amateur Poetry Club (Wokingham Amateur Poerty Club, 1999)

Willis, Liz: Invergordon 1831 - Shipshape and Mutiny Fashion: How they fought the Pay Cuts (SmoothPubs, 2011)

Willis, Liz: What is Libertarian History (2011)

Winning the Class War - An Anarcho-Syndicalist Strategy (DAM, 1991)

Journals, Magazines, etc.

10 Commandments #03-04 (1980)

1831 #02a (AF, 2011)

1831 #04 (AF, 2011)

4 Minute Warning #06

56a Info Shop Bulletin #02 (1991)

56a Info Shop Bulletin #03 (1992)

ABC Bulletin #01 (ABC, 1999)

ABC Bulletin #02 (ABC, 1999)

Active Solidarity - Irregular bulletin of Brighton Anarchist Black Cross prisoner support group 2005/10 #?? (ABC, 2005)

Alternative - Free Adds #1.3

Anarchist Black Cross Belarus Bulletin (ABC, 2012)

Anarchist Black Cross Bulletin (London) #01 (ABC, 1990)

Anarchist Black Cross Bulletin (London) #02 (ABC, 1990)

Anarchist Black Cross Bulletin (London) #09 (ABC, 1991)

Anarchist Black Cross Chicago Bulletin #01 (ABC, 1972)

Antidote - Fact File #01 (DAM)

Arkangel - For Animal Liberation #19

B.U.T. Fosse - The Leicester Music Magazine 1981/05 #06

B.U.T. Fosse - The Leicester Music Magazine 1981/07 #07

B.U.T. Fosse - The Leicester Music Magazine 1981/08 #08

B.U.T. Fosse - The Leicester Music Magazine 1982/01 #10

Base 51 Newsletter #1992/09

Base 51 Newsletter #1993/12

Black Flame #01 (Brighton Anarchists)

Black Flame #02 (Brighton Anarchists)

Black Seed - Manchester Anarchist Bulletin #01 (1985)

Black Seed - Manchester Anarchist Bulletin #02 (1985)

Delta - News and background on Ogoni, Shell and Nigeria #03 (1997)

Derby Alternative Press #05 (1979)

Discussion Bulletin #41 (Discussion Bulletin Committee, 1990)

News From Nowhere - Yorkshire and Humberside Newsletter #03 (DAM, 1993)

News From Nowhere - Yorkshire and Humberside Newsletter #07 (DAM, 1993)

Nottingham Gay Peoples Centre Newsletter #02 (1986)

Taking Liberties - Newsletter of the Northern Anarchist Black Cross - Supporting Class War Prisoners #09

Taking Liberties - Newsletter of the Northern Anarchist Black Cross - Supporting Class War Prisoners #11

Taking Liberties - Newsletter of the Northern Anarchist Black Cross - Supporting Class War Prisoners #19

Taking Liberties - Newsletter of the Northern Anarchist Black Cross - Supporting Class War Prisoners 1992/04 #??

Taking Liberties #?? 1998/05

The Autonomist #04 (Bristol Autonomist, 2010)

The Real Brixton Challenge 1999/02

Wildcat Info #14 (1987)

Wildcat Info #15 (1987)

Wildcat Info #16 (1987)

Wildcat Info #17 (1987)

Wildcat Info #19 (1988)

Wildcat Info #20 (1988)

Wildcat Info #21 (1988)

Wildcat Info #22 (1988)

Wildcat Info #23 (1988)

Wildcat Info #43 (1988)

Wildcat Info #44 (1988)

Wildcat Info #45 (1988)

 

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