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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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News and events from The Sparrows' Nest.

On March 26th 1871, almost 150 years ago, the Paris Commune council was elected. So we put this edition of Bakunin's The Paris Commune and the Idea of the State into the spotlight as our Document of the Month for March 2021...

We have updated our Digital Library with another 182 items. Feel free to dig into another 4.38GB of documents at your leisure...

Alexander Berkman's diary depicting the Kronstadt Revolt, printed in Anarchy Vol:07 #11 (1967), begins with his account of events in Petrograd on 28/02/1921, a century ago today.

We made this issue of Anarchy our Document of the Month.

We have updated our Digital Library with another 150 items. Dive in!

Our first document of the month in 2021 is...

  1. New additions to the Digital Library - January-February 2021
  2. New additions to the Digital Library - December 2020 (Part 2)
  3. Document of the Month – December 2020
  4. New additions to the Digital Library - December 2020

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