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MayDay Rooms is an archive, resource and safe haven for social movements, experimental and marginal cultures and their histories.
MayDay Rooms will be having its annual summer closure between 15th July -13th August.
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
More😎 Summer Closure: 15th July -13th August
MayDay Rooms will be having its annual summer closure between 15th July -13th August. During this time we won’t be taking archival bookings or room bookings. If you would like […]
ARCHIVAL GATHERINGS with Moushumi Bhowmik
Following on from two sold out performances, a Kolkata-based Bengali singer, composer and practice-led researcher Moushumi Bhowmik is back in London to present on and perform her archive of songs […]
Big Flame: Scanathon and Cataloguing Session
In anticipation of the upcoming book on Big Flame from Merlin Press, we will be having an evening of scanning, cataloguing, and searching through our favourite revolutionary-socialist group, Big Flame. Come […]
‘Calling-in’ les petroleuses – an improvised performance by Polimprov
This multimedia performance by collaborative artist-improvisers, Gillian Whiteley and Geoff Bright, forms the final phase of the current exhibition at MayDay Rooms. It reactivates the names of women activists in the 1871 […]
Scrittura di Esperienza Writing Workshop with Lucia Farinati and Eleonora Bottini with Alessia Arcuri and Sara Ortolani (Autocoscienza Writing Group)
What is the role of co-narration in feminist practices of consciousness-raising? In what way is it possible to develop new feminist practices through writing? Scrittura di esperienza (experiential writing) is a […]
