Digital Library Spotlights

Welcome to The Sparrows' Nest, Nottingham

This month we a very happy to add a large stash of documents to our Digital Library, notably a heap of issues of Direct Action from the 1980s, then produced by the Direct Action Movement (DAM).

We are delighted to announce the return of Rosemary to the Nest, updating us on her fascinating research project.

Having recently worked with various materials related to the 50th Anniversary of the 1968 Revolts, we were reminded that the pamphlet series published by Solidarity over many years deserves some more time in the spotlight. Volume 31, published in late 1969, reprinting a report on a strike at the General Motors works in Flint, Michigan. The author had been a Maoist, but Solidarity republished a slightly abbridged version of the original report as it was such an excellent account of the events.

Walter Linder: The Great Flint Sit-Down Strike Against GM 1936-37; Solidarity Pamphlets Vol:31; 1969

Please find below a - this time rather eclectic - list of new additions to our Digital Library. We want to thank local artist John N, as well as a friendly and well equiped fellow archivist and a few other contributors for supplying us with digital copies of fine source materials or helping us digitising oversized materials.

Welcome back to our Document of the Month feature, showcasing some of the awesome documents in our collections.

  1. Interview with a Sparrow on the Anarchist Studies blog
  2. Document of the Month – May 2018
  3. Event Jun 23rd: The 1848 Revolutions: An Anarchist Perspective
  4. Document of the Month – April 2018