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MayDay Rooms is 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.

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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 12 @ 7:00 pm

Talking Shit!

Shitologists of the world, unite! This summer Britain has been engulfed in shit. Our coastlines swamped in brown filth pumped by the sewage companies. Our daily commute is invaded by […]

September 22 @ 7:00 pm

Long Can the Moon be Caged: Voices of Indian Political Prisoners

Meet Francesca Recchia and Suchitra Vijayan to discuss their book How Long Can the Moon Be Caged? Voices of Indian Political Prisoners. Structured as an open conversation, the event will […]

September 8 @ 3:00 pm

Practices and Research in Living and Unfinished Archives

Practices and Research in Living and Unfinished Archives is a 3 day workshop bringing together practitioners, researchers and students from different disciplines and institutions, around an interest in archival material. Based […]

September 7 @ 6:30 pm

Migrant Health and (In)Access

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/migrant-health-and-inaccess-tickets-711099235957?aff=oddtdtcreator

August 4 @ 10:00 am

Feminist Print Cultures

MayDay Rooms is excited to be hosting this day-long workshop with Feminist Print Cultures, which focuses on the past, present and future of feminist print cultures, with particular attention to […]

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September 1, 2023

Collection of the Month: Socialisme ou Barbarie 

MDR International: Warsaw and Amsterdam

July 3, 2023

MDR International: St Imier and Modena

February 8, 2023

Archive of the Month: The Worker Photographer

September 1, 2022

Archive of the Month: Haringey Solidarity Group (HSG)

MayDay Rooms Projects

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The Cost-of-Living Crisis and Histories of Direct Action

The current cost-of-living crisis has incentivised a number of strikes in workplaces and sectors all across the country. However, the sphere of production isn’t the only place where a revitalisation of struggle is emerging. Struggles in the sphere of circulation, from energy bill refusal to mass shoplifting, have re-emerged as proletarian responses to our ongoing crises. From Marius Jacob’s ‘night workers’ to the ‘proletarian shopping’ of 1970s Italy, from the Poll Tax federations to student rent strikes, there is a historical precedent for this activity that must be explored and analysed if we wish to push these contemporary struggles further.


Seize the Media

Indymedia was a global network of Independent Media Centres (IMC) which saw its heyday in the first two decades of the 21st Century. Self-organised networks of local activists covered international resistance to capitalism, ecocide, neocolonialism and many other local and international struggles. Indymedia became synonymous with the issues taken up by the Global Justice Movement. Powered by the internet and built on IMC servers, Indymedia embodied the ethos of DIY journalism and autonomous media. It is a vital part of the pre-history of social media and digitally-enabled activism.


Uncovering the Archive

Uncovering the Archive is an archival collaboration between MayDay Rooms and Iniva. We are offering a free series of workshops and screenings to existing youth programmes with an aim to engage young people (16-25) from marginalised communities such as Black and QTIPOC/PGM*, working class, migrant and Disabled. The intention is to introduce the archive as a resource and archiving as a mode of storytelling available to, and representative of, the identities and lives of those normally excluded from history making practices. By working with the collections held both at MDR and Iniva, the programme aims to offer young people with the tools to confidently explore, interrogate and create the stories they want to tell or wish were told through engaging activities that center creative play, conversation and making. By introducing young people to places, digital spaces and people that are made for/representative of them, we hope to empower their claim to history and uphold the integrity of what is important to them.

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