Anarchist archives

Anarchist archives preserve records from the international anarchist movement in personal and institutional collections around the world.^[1] This primary source documentation is made available for researchers to learn directly from movement anarchists, both their ideas and lives.^[1]

Anarchism, an anti-authoritarian political philosophy of self-governed societies without hierarchies, has spread chiefly through published propaganda literature: pamphlets, books, and newspapers. As a result, American and European anarchists have a history of collecting the movement's written work and anarchist libraries naturally followed.^[2]