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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1) Look for documents on Ecology. Simply enter Ecolog (or ecolog as the search is not case sensitive). Then press 'Catalogue search'.

Try again with the first box checked to see Digital Library items only and click on any link to save or view that item.

Find materials catalogued with the terms Ecology/Ecological or Green by entering first term Ecolog and second term Green, using OR.

Keep in mind that language keeps evolving, so for a thorough search also run assorted other terms, such as enviro for environment or environmentalism.

2) Look for articles about Kropotkin.

Enter Kropotkin (or just Krop) as the first term.

Enter Kropotkin as the first term along with Peter as the second, using AND. This narrows the search mostly to articles written by Peter Kropotkin, or if the full name appears anywhere else in the record.

3) Look for articles about the Mining Industry published in any year in the 1980s or referring to the 1980s.

Enter Mine for the first term and 198 for the second.

4) Look for articles about Feminism (or Feminist issues) and expand to search articles with Wom*n.

Enter terms Femin and Wom using OR.

5) Look for materials published in Wales. Check the second box and then type in Wales. This will include all records with London in the publishers details. Omit this if you only want articles about London. 

6) Look for articles in French. Check the second box and enter the word French as one term, and put content you are looking for as the other, using AND (or leave the second box blank to find any items in French).

If you are stuggling to find what you are looking for, please do not hesitate to get in touch.

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