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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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Another 600MB worth of materials have been added to the Digital Library over the past month, all in all 530 pages, including the other half of volume 41 of Freedom:

Freedom, Vol:41, issue 17

Freedom, Vol:41, issue 18

Freedom, Vol:41, issue 19

Freedom, Vol:41, issue 20

Freedom, Vol:41, issue 21

Freedom, Vol:41, issue 22

Freedom, Vol:41, issue 23

Freedom, Vol:41, issue 24

Freedom, Vol:41, issue 25

Other documents which can now be found online include the awesome local anarcha-feminist zine Dragons:

Dragons, issue 01

Dragons, issue 02

Dragons was digitised following an enquiry regarding local anarcha-feminist materials from the 1980s, along with:

Women's Newsletter, Winter 1985-6

Women's Newsletter, Spring 1986

Spot the Bomb!

Tear it down

Women and Medikill Practise Newsletter, issue 03

And a few issues of local publications Citywise and Anarchist Times:

Anarchist Times, issue 01

Citywise, issue 01

Citywise, issue 02

Citywise, issue 04

For details on all documents (keywords, publishers, dates, notes etc.), please see the catalogue of digitised materials (simply download the spreadsheet or the pdf file and search for the titles you are interested in).

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