Holding tens of thousands of books, journals, pamphlets, zines, leaflets, posters and other archival materials, we focus on the history of anarchist groups and individuals in the UK and beyond, as well as on the history of other social movements, protests and radicalism in Nottingham & Notts and the wider regions of East Midlands & South Yorkshire. Browse our full digital collections, our online catalogue, download digital copies and come and visit us!

As part of our ongoing efforts to make the materials held at the Sparrows’ Nest easily accessible, we have been digitising materials since the early 2010s. Please note that the digitised materials are but the tip of the iceberg, materials continue to keep coming in much faster than we can process them, so if you cannot find what you are looking for, please get in touch, we may well have a copy.

For a full online catalogue including non-digitised materials (including books, unpublished materials, etc.) please visit our website.

We continue to add materials to our Digital Library and will also update our collection here in the Internet Archive. To make sure you are being kept up to date, please get in touch to be added to our (low traffic) mailing list.

We are always happy for users' suggestions which documents to digitise next, so if you have any proposals, please contact us.

Of course, we can only do what we do because people donate their stuff to us. So if you have any materials or if know anyone who has any documents which might be of interest, please do not chuck them out, but get in touch with us!

Furthermore, we are a tiny organisation with very, very limited means. We love what we do and do what we can. But although the project has excellent long-term prospects, this is a labour of love totally dependent on donations, so if you can, please support us.