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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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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!

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Pamphlets

70th Anniversary of Spanish Civil War & Counter-Revolution 1937-2007 - Homage to the victims of Franco & Barcelona's May Day Martyrs

A Rough Guide to Reality

Alton, Edwin H: Experiment in Education - An Account of Danilo Dolci's New Education Centre in Sicily

Barnsby, George: The Great Indian Famine - 1943-44

Barnsdale, David: The Peace Revolution - Stopping the Missiles - A winning strategy for CND & why the revolutionary left has failed to provide it

Bryan, Alex: Corder Catchpool - A hero who never made heroic gestures (Quaker Home Service, 1982)

Caudwell, Christopher: Pacfism and Violence - A Study in Bourgeois Ethics (Oriole Chapbooks)

Cienfuegos Press Review of Anarchist Literature 1976

Comfort, Alex; Sampson, Ronald: War Delinquency and Power (Peace Pledge Union, 1990)

Deming, Barbara: On Revolution and Equilibrium (Institute for the Study of Nonviolence)

Dolgoff, Sam: A Critique of Marxism (Soil of Liberty)

Election! Special Mix (Infantile Disorder, 1983)

Evans, Gwynfor: "Nonviolent Nationalism" (FOR Fellowship of Reconciliation, 1973)

Evans, Kate: Funny Weather We're Having at the Moment isn't it Dear? - Everything you didn't want to know about climate change but probably should find out (2000)

Evens, Tim: Standing up to be counted - Twenty-four men say why they refused military service in 1939-45 and give their present views on peace and war (1988)

Faslane 365 Resource Pack (2006)

Fo, Dario: Can't Pay? Won't Pay! - A Play by Dario Fo (Pluto Press, 1981)

Furby, Chris; Smith, Slim: God Crazy (Workforce Corporation)

Gandhi Remembered - One Hundredth Anniversary (Pendle Hill, 1969)

Goddard, Harold C: Blake's Fourfold Vision (Pendle Hill, 1953)

Gould, Dennis: Alphabet Poems … From Anarchy to Zymotic - Or Streetsong for Anarchist Poets (Riffraff Poets)

Grosser, Philip: Alcatraz - Uncle Sam's Devil's Island (KSL Kate Sharpley Library, 2007)

Hewetson, John: Ill-Health, Poverty & the State (Freedom Press, 1946)

History of the War Resisters League (WRL War Resisters League)

How to Write a Feature for IMC London (Indymedia Collective London)

Jones, Bob: Left-Wing Communism in Britain 1917-21 - An Infantile Disorder

Kellerman, Steve: A Century of Writing on the IWW - 1905-2005 - An Annotated Bibliography of Books on the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW, 2007)

Kent, Bruce: The Non-Violence of Helder Camara (Catholic Truth Society)

Kicker, FA: The Misery of Football - Considered in all its forms, and a few remedies offered (Hat Trick Folio, 1995)

Know your rights: A Climate Activist's Guide to the Law (2008)

Lafargue, Paul: The Right to be Lazy (le droit a la paresse) (Charles H Kerr 1975)

Legal Advice for Activists (2004)

Little Red Songbook - Songs of the Workers to Fan the Flames of Discontent - Limited Centenary Concert Edition (IWW, 2005)

London Anarchist Bookfair 2010

London Anarchist Bookfair 2011

London Anarchist Bookfair 2012

London Anarchist Bookfair 2013

London Anarchist Bookfair 2013 Radical History Area

Moore, Bill: Cold War in Sheffield - The Story of the Second World Peace Congress, November 1950

Morgan, W John; Coates, Ken: The Nottinghamshire Coalfield and the British Miners Strike 1984-85

No Hanging Here - The case of Marie and Noel Murray

Power, Jonathan: Martin Luther King - A Reassessment (Catholic Commission for Racial Justice, 1976)

Publishing With Radical Intent… The Hobnail Directory October 2006-September 2007

Radical and Revolting - The English Working Class (Revolutions Per Minute)

Randle, Michael: Militarism and Repression (International Seminars on Training for Nonviolent Action, 1980)

Rawlinson, Roger: Communities of Resistance Nuclear and chemical pollution cross frontiers, and so did the protesters of the Upper Rhine (Quaker Peace & Service, 1986)

Rawlinson, Roger: Larzac - A Victory for nonviolence (Quaker Peace & Service, 1986)

Rawlinson, Roger: The Battle of Larzac (FOR Fellowship of Reconciliation)

Reds on the Green - A Short Tour of Clerkenwell Radicalism (Past Tense, 2005)

Shaw on Shelley (Stroud, 2010)

Solidarity at Work - The Case for Free Trade Unions

The Old Woman Who Lived In A Shoe - 1856 Edition

The Salters of Bermondsey - Social Reformers - People Caring for People (Friends Education Council, 1976)

The Spanish Revolution (Manchester Militant Anarchists)

The Street Farmers Windworkers Manual

The Subversive Past - Two Essays (The Pleasure Tendency, 1985)

Their business is ours (Indymedia Collective London)

Thompson, Chris: Beware the Barmaid's Smile! - The New Vulgarity in our pub culture (Pelagian Press)

Three essays... (Indymedia Collective London)

Uncontrollable/Iron Column: A Day Mournful and Overcast

Ward, Colin: The Crisis of Socialism (Acrata Press)

Wells, Roger AE: Riot and Political Disafection in Nottinghamshire in the Age of Revolutions, 1776-1803 (University of Nottingham, 1983)

When Gendarme Sleeps! - Anarchy's Zine of Poetry (2002)

World War 1 1916-18 Poems (2010)

Journals, Magazines, etc.

Anarchist Student #01 - Anarchist Federation Student Bulletin

ARM Alternative Rag Mag #?? (Aberdeen Students Women Action Group)

Big Flame #01 - Educational Bulletin Of The Anarchist Federation

Building Worker 2007/Spring

CAP Newsletter 1989/Autumn #02 (1989)

Front Line '85 Week 45 #03

Front Line '85 Week 47 #05

Leveller #11 - Newsletter of Nottingham Trades Union Council (2002)

Leveller #13 - Newsletter of Nottingham Trades Union Council (2002)

National Union of Mineworkers Northwest Miners Association 2014

Nonviolent Action #36 The Monthly from Peace News

Overall - There Is A Smell Of Fried Onions 1991/08 #05

Overall - There Is A Smell Of Fried Onions 1991/09 #06

Overall - There Is A Smell Of Fried Onions 1991/11 #08

Overall - There Is A Smell Of Fried Onions 1991/12 #09

Overall - There Is A Smell Of Fried Onions 1992/04 Vol:02 #01

Overall - There Is A Smell Of Fried Onions 1992/06 Vol:02 #03

Overall - There Is A Smell Of Fried Onions 1992/12 Vol:02 #07

Overall - There Is A Smell Of Fried Onions 1993/02 Vol:02 #08

Overall - There Is A Smell Of Fried Onions 1993/03 Vol:02 #09

Overall - There Is A Smell Of Fried Onions 1993/07 Vol:03 #02

Overall - There Is A Smell Of Fried Onions 1993/09 Vol:03 #03

Overall - There Is A Smell Of Fried Onions 1993/10 Vol:03 #04

Overall - There Is A Smell Of Fried Onions 1993/11 Vol:03 #05

Overall - There Is A Smell Of Fried Onions 1993/12 Vol:03 #06

Overall - There Is A Smell Of Fried Onions 1994/01 Vol:03 #07

Overall - There Is A Smell Of Fried Onions 1994/03 Vol:03 #08

Overall - There Is A Smell Of Fried Onions 1994/11 Vol:04 #05

Overall - There Is A Smell Of Fried Onions 1995/01 Vol:04 #07

Overall - There Is A Smell Of Fried Onions 1995/04 Vol:05 #01

Overall - There Is A Smell Of Fried Onions 1995/05 Vol:05 #02

Overall - There Is A Smell Of Fried Onions 1996/03 #41

Overall - There Is A Smell Of Fried Onions 1996/04 #42

Overall - There Is A Smell Of Fried Onions 1996/05 #43

Overall - There Is A Smell Of Fried Onions 1996/09 #44

Overall - There Is A Smell Of Fried Onions 1996/?? #48

Overall - There Is A Smell Of Fried Onions 1997/02 #49

Overall - There Is A Smell Of Fried Onions 1997/?? #51

Overall - There Is A Smell Of Fried Onions 1997/?? #53

Overall - There Is A Smell Of Fried Onions 1997/10 #55

Overall - There Is A Smell Of Fried Onions 1997/?? #56

Overall - There Is A Smell Of Fried Onions 1997/?? #57

Overall - There Is A Smell Of Fried Onions 1997/?? #58

Overall - There Is A Smell Of Fried Onions 1997/?? #59

Partnership Council One Sheet #38 (2001)

Partnership Council One Sheet #40 (2001)

Partnership Council One Sheet #Planning Special 03 (2000)

Protect and Survive (with illustrations by Clifford Harper)

Rock & Reggae 93 - 1993 Souvenir Programme (Overall)

Scottish Libertarian #02 (Scottish Libertarian Federation, 1977)

The Loombreaker #20

The Yorkshire Anarchist #02

Total Liberty Vol:04 #03 A Journal of Evolutionary Anarchism (2004)

Trade Union News #21 (Hull & District Trades Union Council)

Trentsider 1991/12

Troublemakers #01 Free news for Peaks area (2001)

Union City News #05

Union City News #07

Leaflets, posters and assorted stuff

Assorted materials regarding campaigns against the Apartheid regime in South Africa, mostly local (Nottingham Anti-Apartheid Group), redacted scans, bundle not fully digitised.

Assorted posters collected by Ron M, eg regarding the Miners' Strike, SolFed and anti-NF work, folder partially digitised, mostly 1980s.

CAP Campaign Against Pornography Action Pack

Organisational basis of DAM, as adopted at a conference in Leeds, 1979.

Take a walk around the unique and historic Inclosure lands of Nottingham... (Friends of the Forest)

The Fight is Just Beginning… - Leaflet produced during the 1984-5 Miners' Strike. (North West Anarchist Federation)

Write-On Cards - Mushroom bookshop postcards and order form.

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