Welcome to The Sparrows' Nest, Nottingham

This month we came across the Freedom Press publication Ill-Health, Poverty & the State, half pamphlet, half paperback from 1946, writing on healthcare during the post war, but pre NHS period. Digitising this was a bit of an agonising decision and technically more challenging than most documents, we posted some notes about the process on on our Instagram account.

Apologies for the delayed upload. We were rather busy and much of that work was a lot of unavoidable sorting and cataloguing so scanning materials had to take a bit of a backseat. But there you go, pamphlets, pamphlets and pamphlets, as well as a bunch of newspapers. Dive in!

Thanks to the amazing work of a volunteer, the majority of our Digital Collections can now be accessed through the Internet Archive.

With another list of newly added materials and our new Spotlight on: The Struggle Against The Poll Tax, we were once again spoiled for choice which document to single out this month, with tons of cool posters, leaflets and newspapers to pick from.

This month we have added a lot of anti-Poll Tax materials to the Digital Library, as well as the usual assortment of bits and bobs found at the bottom of boxes.

  1. Spotlight on: The Struggle Against The Poll Tax
  2. Please help us archive the Covid-19 Crisis
  3. Document of the Month – April 2020
  4. New additions to the Digital Library - April 2020