Visit Us
MayDay Rooms is an archive, resource and safe haven for social movements, experimental and marginal cultures and their histories.
We are open: Wednesday–Friday, 11–6pm
Please contact us to book an archival appointment:
in-formation [AT] maydayrooms.org
Find us at:
88 Fleet Street
London
EC4Y 1DH
Using the Space
We offer free organising and event space for unfunded activist and self-organised education groups, and we ask those who can afford to make a donation on a sliding scale to support the space.
The space is bookable from Monday-Friday and sometimes at the weekend.
MoreHelp us keep going
Join the MDR’s Friends scheme to help us sustain our archive as a resource for movements today, to continue to programme events and outreach around our collections, and provide meeting spaces, all free of cost.
MoreUpcoming & Recent Events
MoreArchival Film Night for LGBTQ+ History Month: The Archivettes (2019)
When a group of women in the Gay Academic Union founded the Lesbian Herstory Archives in the mid-1970s, they did so in explicit recognition that lesbian herstory ‘was disappearing […]
Archiving from Below Discussion Series: All Knees and Elbows of Susceptibility and Refusal: Reading History From Below
In All Knees and Elbows, published in 2012 Tom Roberts and Anthony Iles attempted to recover and politically and critically survey the work of historians contributing to practices of reading and […]
Listening Event: No Fear! An oral history project on the Student Movement (2010-2012) with MayDay Rooms and On the Record.
Celebrating our newly trained Oral Historians! Over 8 sessions, the No Fear! cohort were equipped with archival resources and oral history training to build a new archive representing the experiences […]
‘FEKS’ performed by New Factory of the Eccentric Actor
We are thrilled to welcome The New Factory of the Eccentric Actor back to MDR, following their wonderful performance of The Blue Blouse (Синяя блуза) in 2019. First staged by The New […]
Pirate Care: Acts Against the Criminalization of Solidarity
We are very excited to welcome longtime friends and comrades of MDR, Valeria Graziano, Tomislav Medak and Marcell Mars, to discuss their new book Pirate Care: Acts Against the Criminalization of […]
