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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Thanks to a lovely volunteer our DocOfTheMonth feature is back!

An exhibition of photographs and local campaign materials at Broadway Cinema, in collaboration with People's Histreh, featuring photographs by Alan Lodge (Tash).

21st to 24th September 2023 – Free Event.

After the original slot could not go ahead due to a power outage at Broadway, we are very glad that new dates have now been confirmed!

Most of our final upload for 2022 are 161 issues of Freedom, (almost) everything we have from the first half of the 20th century.

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.

We added another 166 items to the Digital Library. Dive in!

  1. New Sparrows' Nest artwork
  2. Document of the Month – July 2021

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