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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

There is no need to book an appointment to visit the archive during our opening hours, but if you have a specific request please email us in advance.
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.

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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 10 @ 6:30 pm

Book Launch: Take Over The City w/ Neil Gray

​Join us for a book launch and discussion on contemporary urban politics with Neil Gray, author of the newly released Take Over The City: Spatial Composition in Italian Autonomy! Hosted […]

October 16 @ 6:00 pm

MDR x Crab Museum: TREES ARE GOOD: archives of environmental direct action and eco-defence

Join MayDay Rooms at the Crab Museum in Margate for the opening of a collection of materials from our environmental direct action archives. Trees are Good frames tactics of tree […]

October 22 @ 7:00 pm

ECO-poetics with CA Conrad

Raised by factory workers, CAConrad learned as a child to avoid the present. When you work in factories, you become an extension of a machine for most of the day, […]

October 29 @ 7:00 pm

Archiving from Below: Ambivalent Archives

This session of the Archiving from Below series will be hosted by Ambivalent Archives, a Cambridge-based research lab exploring critical archival research and practice. For this event, convenor Dr Sophie […]

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May 4, 2026

Help us build our Eco-Action archive at MayDay Rooms!

March 2, 2026

 The MayDay Rooms and PageMasters Print Residency for young people is back!

February 5, 2026

Join our Archival Working Group!

November 28, 2025

MDR x DOPE Magazine: Global Ecology, Not Global Economy

November 14, 2025

For Peace! Online Exhibition Launch

MayDay Rooms Projects

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Eco-Action: Global Ecology not Global Economy

MayDay Rooms holds one of the largest and most significant archival collections of Britain’s ecological movement. Eco-Action: Global Ecology not Global Economy is a two year project, supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, established to preserve, digitise and activate this material. The project will catalogue the collection; build an open-access online repository of the material under a Creative Commons license; conduct in-depth research into the collection; create guides and mapping connections between our collection and other archives; and incorporate oral histories and community-sourced content into an online resource. As part of the project, we are running a year-long youth engagement programme centred on histories of the ecological movement, research techniques and archival and digitisation methods.

The project will culminate in a multi-sited exhibition and published research which will situate ecological direct-action within the movement from the 1960s to present.

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.

After over a decade of archiving, 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!

Britain is currently entering a new cycle of rearmament, expanding the reach of its nuclear capability, increasing military spending for NATO, and continuing to support Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza. Those opposing this escalation have been met with increasing repression, through the use of counter-terror legislation, draconian sentencing of protesters and the proscription of groups engaged in direct action.

In this context, this project revisit the peace movement’s material history, trying to better understand the diversity of tactics and intersecting movements which have shaped it. We hope that this projects acts as a resource and inspiration for those struggling for a demilitarised world today. For Peace! interweaves historical strands from the workers’ movement, Women’s Liberation, anti-colonial, socialist, and anarchist movements to address questions of non-violence, class, international solidarity, and the role of liberation struggles. There were four different component parts: a digital multimedia collection which is part of the Activist Media Project, two exhibitions at Glasgow Women’s Library and Four Corners Gallery, an online version of the exhibition and a publication.

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