Welcome to The Sparrows' Nest, Nottingham

In 1984, the organisation then known as the Anarchist Communist Federation began to publish a magazine entitled Virus, which ran for 13 issues before being continued as Organise! from 1989.

On Saturday 27th April we ran a workshop as guests of the Notts Zine Library, currently based at Nottingham Contemporary.

Welcome back to our Document of the Month feature!

This month we have another rather ecclectic mix for you. Please see below a few more Fanzines we found prepping for the Anarcho-Punk Zine event (thanks again to everyone who dropped by and took part), as well as a bunch of materials that were requested by a couple of visitors (never hesitate to ask us to digitise materials you want to see in the Digital Library). Furthermore there is the usual mix of materials we came across, with an emphasis on anarcha feminist materials.

Given the recent 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, we decided to put our spotlight on some of the many documents in our collections documenting LGBTQ+ history in Nottingham.

  1. Document of the Month – Mar 2019
  2. New additions to the Digital Library - Mar 2019
  3. Event: From the Pistols to the Miners’ Strike: Fanzines of the Anarcho-Punk era, 1976 to 1984
  4. The Meaning of Anarchism, via twelve libertarians - Resources