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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News and events

News and events from The Sparrows' Nest.

We have added another three volumes of Freedom to the Digital Library. 72 issues, covering Jan 1991-Dec 1993. Full, good quality OCR, c54MB per file. Dive in!

We just added another 89 items to the Digital Library. Many thanks to the estate of Colin Ward who so generously entrusted us with many treasures from his home office.

We have added another 117 items to the Digital Library, featuring a lot of local CND materials, some publications regarding disputes in the mining industry and a mix of anarchist periodicals. Dive in!

We have added another 229 items to the Digital Library, inlcuding a lot of AF/ACF materials. Dive in!

We added another 326 items to the Digital Library. Full list below:

  1. New additions to the Digital Library - March 2022
  2. Digitising oversized documents!
  3. New additions to the Digital Library - December 2021
  4. New additions to the Digital Library - November 2021

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