The Sparrows' Nest Library and Archive

Freedom is an anarchist newspaper published by Freedom Press since 1886. Please see below a list of all issues of Freedom that have already been uploaded to our Digital Library.

We are currently (late 2023) in the process of digitising our complete collections of Freedom. Please watch this space as there is more to come over the next few months.

The quality of the scans is as good as we can achieve with our current equipment/software. There were some challenges resulting in some warped and/or skewiff pages that could not be avoided, but all should be very comfortably readable. All issues feature good quality OCR. Any problems, dead links etc, please get in touch.

Missing issues

Our collections of issues published before 1950 are far from complete. If you happen to have copies that could fill any gaps (either by donating or loaning the originals to us), please do not hesitate to get in touch. Please also see Freedom Press' Freedom Newspaper Archive to read many issues we do not have in our collections.

1886-1919

We only have a single issue (Jan 1902, Vol:16 #164) from the years before 1920.

1920-1929

Although Vols 34-41 (1920-1927) are complete (see below), we have no issues that were published between 1928-1929.

1930-1949

We only have a single issue from the 1930s (Jan 1931, Vol:09 #01), which is yet to be digitised.

From Vol:01 (1939-1940) we are missing: #01, #02, #03, #04, #05, #06, #07, #08, #09, #10.

From Vol:02 (1940-1941) we are missing: #02, #03, #04, #06, #07, #10, #12.

From Vol:03 (1941-1942) we are missing: #13, #15, #16, #17, #21.

From Vol:04 (1942-1943) we are missing: #02, #03, #05, #06, #10, #14, #15, #21, #23.

From Vol:05 (1943-1944) we are missing: #04.

From Vol:06 (1944-1945) we are missing all issues but #21 (1945/08/11), which is yet to be digitised.

From Vol:07 (1946) we are missing all issues but #09 (1946/02).

From Vol:08 (1947) we are only missing #01.

From Vol:09 (1948) we are missing all issues but #20 (1948/10/02).

From Vol:10 (1949) we are missing: #01, #02, #03, #04, #05, #06, #07, #08, #10, #12, #14 and we have, but need to rescan page 3 of #20.

1950-1959

We are missing Vol:13 #31 (1952), Vol:16 #19 (1955) and Vol:20 #02 (1959).

1960-1969

From 1960-1967 we are only missing two issues (Freedom Vol:21 #32 (1960) and Freedom Vol:21 #39 (1960)). Frustratingly, we have not a single issue from 1968 and a few gaps in Vol:30 (1969): #02, #19, #27, #32, #33, #37, #38 and any issues after #39 (presumably #40 and #41).

1970-1972

From Vol:31 (1970) we are missing all but three issues.

From Vol:33 (1972) we are missing #17, #25, #30 and #33.

From Vol:34 (1973) we have but need to rescan #02.

From Vol:35 (1974) we are missing #02 and #40.

From Vol:38 (1977) we are missing the Freedom Review supplement from #01, all of #04, #05, #07, #08, the Freedom Review supplements from #16 and 19 and all of #22.

Freedom Newspaper

Missing issues

1886-1919

1920-1929

1930-1949

1950-1959

1960-1969

1970-1972

1980-1989

Digitised issues of Freedom

1886-1919

1920-1939

1940-1949

1950-1959

1960-1969

1970-1979

1980-1989

1990-1999