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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

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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.

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Help 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.

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Upcoming & Recent Events

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October 30 @ 6:30 pm

Digging Where You Stand: Community-led and Movement Archiving with Andrew Flinn

Archiving From Below Discussion Series Drawing on the first English language version of the Swedish author and activist Sven Lindqvist’s influential 1978 workers’ radical history manual (Dig Where You Stand […]

October 19 @ 6:00 pm

Languages and Peoples Launch with Dabartis

Join members of Dabartis for a launch of their second publication Languages and Peoples—a collaboration with Nieczytelne—it features a multi-language (RU, PL, LT, EN) translation of an essay by philosopher […]

October 12 @ 11:00 am

MDR @ Anarchist Bookfair 

MayDay Rooms will have a stall at this year’s London Anarchist Book Fair, where we will be selling our books, posters, and showcasing some of our archive. We will also […]

September 28 @ 2:00 pm

Archival Working Group

First session, Saturday 28th September, 2-4pm Building on a few years of successful scanathons and cataloguing sessions, we have decided to form a regular working group centred around the archive. […]

September 28 @ 12:00 pm

Autumn Archive Open Day

During our inaugural Saturday opening times we will be having an archive open day, you will be able to browse our collections, learn more about MayDay Rooms, and connect with […]

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September 13, 2024

Tony Bunyan, 1941-2024

September 8, 2024

MDR goes to Glasgow

MDR Podcasting Studio!

New Saturday Openings 

May 2, 2024

MayDay Rooms is 10 years old!

MayDay Rooms Projects

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Archiving from Below

Since its inception, MayDay Rooms has been built on the principle of archiving from below, challenging the conventional institutional methods of gathering, shaping, and disseminating the history of struggles.

As we enter our tenth year, we are launching a reading and discussion group to address the practices of archiving from below and strategies of activating the histories of resistance . 

The group is open to archivists, researchers, historians involved in both past and present organising, and anyone interested in radical archives. Our aim is to share our own approach, learn from each other, and collaboratively develop counter-archival practices that extend beyond mere critique.

For Peace!

We are collecting materials and stories from live and historical campaigns working for peace. We want to create an inspiring open-access archive showing a wide range of campaigns and movements.

Peace groups, demilitarisation activities, anti-militarist campaigns, feminist responses to war, anti-war mobilisations, pacifist education are just some examples of what we’re looking for. We want leaflets, interviews, oral histories, newspapers, videos, films, banners, stencils to be made available online and in a touring exhibition.

No contribution is too small! We will favour campaigns active within our lifetimes, but would be happy to consider materials dating all the way back to the opposition to the First World War. The geographical focus is Great Britain and Northern Ireland, but we are also interested in international and transnational campaigns.

Uncovering the Archive

The programme offers a free series of workshops & screenings with an aim to engage young people (18-25) from marginalised backgrounds and/or those who have not engaged with archives before or are not currently in higher education. The intention is to introduce the archive as a resource and archiving as a mode of storytelling available to, and representative of, those who are normally excluded from history- making practices.

The programme offers a free series of workshops & screenings with an aim to engage young people (18-25) from marginalised backgrounds and/or those who have not engaged with archives before or are not currently in higher education. The intention is to introduce the archive as a resource and archiving as a mode of storytelling available to, and representative of, those who are normally excluded from history- making practices.


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