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.

It is our pleasure to contribute to an upcoming local event commemorating the 50th anniversary of the 1968 Revolts. Please see below for a number of excellent source materials regarding the 1968 Revolts, including some local leaflets (we were super excited that these could be found!), all instantaneously available from our ever growing Digital Library.

 

We recently had a request from the London Anarchist Bookfair to solve a mystery concerning when the first such event took place and where it was held. Long-term memories varied and the Bookfair collective were presented with various accounts, so they sought hard evidence from our newly acquired Freedom archive.

It’s been a while since we added to the links and friends section of the Nest website but we are about to make up with it with a tale of books, birds and both.

We would like to say thank you for a most generous donation of books and papers/magazines given to us by the sister and friends of the late Ray Gosling (1939-2013).

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