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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Thank you very much to the bloggers at Dawn of the Unread, a local 'interactive graphic novel' project, devoted to and run by lovers of libraries and books.

They recently interviewed one of the Nest collective and have written a lovely article about us, as well as being very busy telling people about us. So again - thank you very much!

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