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
Tel: 0203 930 9297
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
MoreRolling our own! Feminist Magazines and Women’s Liberation with Liberating Histories
From Spare Rib to Red Rag to Shocking Pink, activist periodicals of the 1970s-80s powered, connected and sustained the UK Women’s Liberation Movement. As the socialist-feminist magazine Scarlet Women put […]
Archival film night! 1970s childcare activism in London and NYC
Assembling together a variety of short documentary films from the 1970s, this event will highlight the often overlooked politics of and experiments with collective childcare historically and what reflections or […]
Exarcheia Anti-Gentrification Timeline Launch
Join us for the launch of the Exarcheia Anti-Gentrification Timeline – a project aimed at mapping anti-gentrification struggles that have happened in Exarcheia over the last three years. Recently, gentrification […]
HARRAGA! Archiving the experiences of small-boat migration across the Mediterranean and the English Channel
A talk by Ed Emery [Red Notes / SOAS] The decade-long experience of small-boat migration across the Mediterranean is known in North Africa as “harraga” – the burning of one’s […]
Archive Filmmaking Workshop | MayDay Rooms x Other Cinemas
Join us over two sessions for a hands-on archival filmmaking workshop exploring the role and place of (institutional and community) archives in storytelling and how we can respond to […]
